Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what punishment she had hoped for: I was hoping to be given an Article 15 [an administrative disciplinary action that ranges from reprimands to reductions in rank]. Then I could salute smartly, get Marc Zigo the hell out of my life and move on. I wouldn't have to live under his threats anymore...
...among the guests was Senior Airman Colin Thompson, whom Flinn had met a few months before. During the party, the report alleges, Flinn and Thompson had sex on the lawn of her residence; then Thompson spent the night. According to the report, Thompson claimed that Flinn, his superior in rank, told him that she knew what they did was wrong but that no one would ever find out about it. It was this encounter that gave rise to the fraternization charge against...
...found herself a lawyer. Lieut. General Phillip J. Ford, commander of the Eighth Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, approved a recommendation that she be court-martialed. Ford could have slapped her with a "nonjudicial," or administrative, punishment, such as a reprimand or reduction in rank, which is what senior Air Force officials in the Pentagon now wish he had done. Instead, on Feb. 25, Flinn was ordered to stand trial...
...couple of reporters and a journalism professor sit before an audience and chew over subjects like "Everybody Thinks We're Scum, and No Wonder: Reflections on Public Mistrust of the Media." Grimly, the nonprofits commission polls to take the public's temperature, and the results are unvarying: reporters rank somewhere below concentration-camp guards, nobody believes what he reads in the newspaper, and so on. And the results are then duly reported in (of course) the newspaper...
...Gore have the closest personal and professional relationship of any President and Vice President in history. Nonetheless, Presidents are notorious for demanding unwavering loyalty from subordinates without ever contemplating returning that loyalty, and Clinton has already demonstrated that he is no exception. He is concerned about how historians will rank him as a President. If he is forced to choose between a policy decision that will burnish his image and one that will advance Gore's candidacy, it is unlikely that Gore's interests will prevail. NATHANIEL H. KAROL Highland Park...