Word: ranks
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...ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled at her categorization as a female violinist. "A violinist is a violinist, and I am to be judged as one--not a female musician," she said...
...freshman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, to make the sales pitches on talk shows and press conferences. Gingrich has even vowed to get more sleep. The self-benching has some Gingrich aides worried about the "message vacuum" that will be left in his wake, but that's a problem some rank-and-file Republicans are happy to endure. Says Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut: "We want him to pay more attention to his personal conduct...and don't give Democrats ammunition...
...This seemed to me to be a rank and flagrant example of that. Here was an actual vote of the people being overturned, which made the winners into losers and the losers into winners," Mansfield says. "Partly I also reacted to the problem of finding anyone who would do anything to get gay activists upset. My experience amply showed why people hesitate...
...unison and perform a quadruple twist. It was after Calgary that they fell in love, and in 1991 they married in Moscow. Katia gave birth to their daughter Daria in 1992, but they continued to skate together professionally. For Lillehammer in '94, G and G returned to the amateur rank, and they were so transcendent that they won the gold despite a couple of slips. According to John Nicks, a U.S. Olympic coach, "the change in their relationship into a loving, caring, mature union changed their skating for the better...
...insurance benefits and angry over prospective bonuses for Boeing executives, rejected a three-year contract offer that had been accepted earlier by the union leadership. Members of Machinists District Lodge 751 chanted "No givebacks, no way," and "Stop Boeing Greed" as it was announced that 60.9 percent of the rank-and-file rejected the proposal. Union negotiators urged membership to accept the offer, arguing that the agreement would boost pensions, offer some protections against job losses through subcontracting and scale down health care increases. But most of the 24,000 members rejected a requirement that they begin paying part...