Word: ranks
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...favor the admission of women to every rank in the Anglican priesthood...
Hard-liners have tended to be clustered among older officers of colonel's rank and above, but the real dividing line is allegiance to the Communist Party. All top officers belonged to the party, while a network of loyalty officers ensures political orthodoxy throughout the ranks. The coup "wasn't the army as such in revolt," says Stephen Meyer, a Soviet expert at M.I.T. "It was the tired old nomenklatura, the party figures in the army." In his first act as defense minister, Shaposhnikov resigned from the party and, on the basis of a decree issued by Yeltsin, ordered...
...recently the industry has come down with a case of can-you-top-this fever. The latest combination is the largest in banking history, the merger of San Francisco-based BankAmerica with its smaller Los Angeles rival, Security Pacific. With $193 billion in assets, the enlarged BankAmerica will rank a close second to New York's Citicorp among U.S. banks...
...them. Party hard-liners have been defeated in almost every major election that has been held during the past two years. While communist rule goes unchallenged in the conservative Central Asian republics, the party is virtually a marginal opposition group in Georgia, Armenia and the Baltic republics. Rank-and-file members across the country are deserting the fold in droves. Some 4 million have left the party during the past 18 months, reducing total membership to 15 million...
Watchdog publications allow hobbyists and rank amateurs an opportunity to get their digs in at well-paid professionals. These periodicals bristle with jeremiads by professors from obscure universities, by authors whose books have been published by Asklepios/Pagan Press, and by unheralded theorists such as the project director of Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action, whatever that...