Word: ranks
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Though history does not record how other Venetian painters felt about competing with Titian, it cannot have been easy for them. Especially not for Tintoretto, a genius of the first rank, whom Titian's longevity compelled always to be a runner-up. Titian's work, so masterly in its effects, so profoundly inventive, so grand in scope and yet relieved by such suppleness and intimacy of feeling, continued to set the tone of aspiration for Rubens in the 17th century and, through Rubens, for painters like Delacroix well into the 19th...
...focused almost exclusively on a single, critical issue: how to change the damaging perception that the nation's Commander in Chief is at odds with his military. According to a White House insider, Crowe offered a two-pronged strategy for handling the balky Pentagon brass and disrespectful rank and file: woo them with charm, but keep them in line with a firm hand. More precisely, Clinton was told, Defense Secretary Les Aspin "has to get tough and make them salute...
According to Hicks, the manager, assistant manager and three supervisors who run the College's dining hall are all white. Hicks said he and other minorities were discriminated against when it came to getting promoted to "second cook," a supervisory position that is below the rank of the white supervisors...
...people with more command experience, higher rank, applied for the job at Harvard," says Boston Lt. Det. Richard C. Cox, who now occupies the same corner office Johnson used when the chief was the area police commander for sections of Roxbury, North Dorchester and Mattapan. "I happen to be privy to the fact that after Paul's interview at Harvard, they basically stopped looking...
When asked to rank Ivy League schools, 87 percent of Harvard students ranked the College number one. Among all Ivy League students polled, an average of 57 percent ranked Harvard first. Thirty percent of Yale students put Harvard...