Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern Labor Union. Last year it defied a taboo and printed the complete list of the U.M.W.'s contract demands for the membership before the union began its bargaining sessions with the coal operators. Most significantly, however, the Journal has taken to printing dissenting opinion in a "Rank & File Speaks" feature and the letters column. Says Joseph Rauh Jr., Miller's lawyer during the election: "One of the happiest days of my life was when I saw a letter in the Journal in praise of Boyle. Not that I feel any sympathy for the guy. Far from that...
...Thatcher finally reached Cabinet rank in 1970, when Heath named her Minister of Education and Science. She survived nearly four stormy years in the post, upholding the then unfashionable principle of meritocracy against the open-enrollment school policies established by the Labor governments of the '60s. In one furiously criticized venture, she raised the price of school lunches and cut off the free milk rations for some 3.5 million children, earning for herself the bitter playground chant, "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher." The $20.7 million per year that she thus saved was used to help finance an ambitious educational-reform...
FRANCE: TOUJOURS COUTURE. France has produced first-rank individual designers, some of whom created their most notable work abroad. Raymond Loewy, at 81 the dean of French designers, has lived for more than 50 years in the U.S., where he has produced hundreds of ideas, including the classic "double-fronted" 1953 Studebaker, the new Exxon corporate logo and the living quarters for NASA's Skylab. Next year the Smithsonian Institution will honor Loewy's work with a retrospective exhibition that will eventually be seen in Moscow as well...
...identified, told The Crimson: "Most Honeywell employees are dead asleep. They just don't want to be bothered. Some middle level workers, who are at least aware of the anti-personnel weapons issue, have told me that bombs in Indochina are simply too far away for rank and file people to concern themselves with. They are too busy with their day to day work...
...agonizing slowness. After learning to play goalie as a farm boy in rural Quebec (his peers would not let him play offense because of his size), he was invited to a Montreal Canadien junior team tryout at age 16. He was immediately sent to the second-rank junior squad. Four years later, when his junior stint was ending, Vachon was once again farmed out, this time to a minor league team. When he finally got a chance to play for Montreal eight years ago, he initially performed in the shadow of Gump Worsley. Eventually, as he was becoming recognized...