Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black comedy of errors that followed the explosion suggests either a costly mistake -- or the work of rank amateurs. By the time federal agents arrested Nidal Ayyad, 25, at his home in Maplewood, New Jersey, they had ( several pieces of evidence linking him to the first suspect seized, Mohammed Salameh, starting with the business card they found in Salameh's pocket. Although Ayyad is from Kuwait and Salameh is from Jordan, both men are of Palestinian descent and they have been friends for more than a year. One of Ayyad's brothers says they met at a mosque, though...
...church in 1991, said all the women had been above the age of legal consent. Even if no crimes were committed, however, Sanchez apparently violated the priestly celibacy rule, not to mention basic Christian decency. In 1990 Atlanta's Archbishop Eugene Marino became the first American of that rank ever to be forced out of office, after being caught in an affair with a woman...
Because of Ronald Reagan, Republicans had begun to make inroads within traditional Democratic constituencies. Hispanics, Jews, union rank-and-file--all were trending in our direction. Yet in 1992, only 25 percent of the Hispanics, 24 percent of the union members, and just one out of ten Jewish voters pulled the Republican line...
...filled only by a Social Democrat from a French-speaking canton. Member of parliament Christiane Brunner, 46, not only met those criteria but also represented a major labor constituency in the metal and watchmaking industries. No matter. Brunner's bid to become the second woman ever to hold Cabinet rank was scuttled by the overwhelmingly male parliament, apparently because of sexual politics...
...PEOPLE SPORTING BUTTONS THAT SAY "POOR, UNeducated and Easy to Command," they're not looking for jobs, they're making a statement. Leaders and some rank-and-file members of Pat Robertson's CHRISTIAN COALITION are wearing the buttons as a defiant badge of honor. The Washington Post used those unflattering terms in an article criticizing the preacher's fundamentalist followers...