Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dangerous arsenals, argued that the sooner the regime comes clean, the quicker the country might resume oil exports and normal economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils: black-market profits, cuts of foreign business deals and all the other perks flowing from high rank in a dictatorship. Said Phebe Marr, an Iraq expert at Washington's National Defense University: "It's a terrific feud in the family, and it's been pretty grubby--over money and power...
...ahead of his closest rival by 32 points -- that his nomination looks increasingly inevitable. But as Dole's lead over Clinton has vanished, there is a growing fear in G.O.P. circles that the party is about to nominate a man who does not excite the party's rank and file; a Washington insider in an age when the term has become an insult; a closet centrist with a hard head and a bleeding heart; and, most worrisome, a candidate who might squander the party's chance to exploit Clinton's weakness and gain a new Republican dynasty...
...persistent barrage of outside attack also helped create a culture in which senior managers and agents face each other across a vast reservoir of distrust and hostility, according to hundreds of pages of internal reports and court documents reviewed by Time. Rank-and-file agents have long protested how managers use ATF's internal-affairs unit, which routinely conducts three to five times as many internal probes as the Secret Service's apparatus, even though each agency has roughly 4,000 employees. Magaw explains the differential as partly because of the fact that ATF agents conduct far more gritty street...
...himself to a court, as West did, but to pretend to be a native aristocrat. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834, and partly raised in Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early in his life that he was no prosaic Yankee, but a Southern gentleman from Baltimore, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point, but was flunked in 1854 for his cluelessness about chemistry. "Had silicon been a gas," he would...
...shoot-down, the Air Force granted immunity to Captain Eric Wickson, the F-15 pilot believed by many in the Pentagon to be most responsible for the catastrophe. The Air Force used his testimony against the other F-15 pilot, Lieut. Colonel Randy May. While May was senior in rank, Wickson was the so-called flight lead the day of the shoot-down, making Wickson largely responsible for what occurred. In part because of that prosecutorial decision, 26 charges of negligent homicide against May were dropped. Furthermore, the top officer responsible for the operation in northern Iraq, Brigadier General Jeffrey...