Word: ranks
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...application process was eliminatedand students were asked to rank all 12 houses.This system proved very unpopular, according toJohn B. Fox Jr. '59, secretary of the Faculty ofArts and Sciences (FAS) and former dean of thecollege...
...however, he is dedicated enough to his comrades and their cause to keep his mouth shut. Imprisoned at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, McVeigh, when questioned, responds only with his name, his rank and his date of birth-obeying, as it happens, the instructions for pows in a manual published by the Michigan Militia. Even when confronted last week with photographs of the children carried from the crumpled Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building -- some bloody and numb with shock, others already dead -- McVeigh appeared unshaken. The accused bomber seems to have decided that he is a prisoner...
...troops have been forbidden since 1969 to participate actively in "organizations that espouse supremacist causes." However, such allegiances do exist among the rank and file. In 1986, for instance, three Marines from North Carolina's Camp Lejeune were ousted for membership in a white supremacist group. One Marine testified that he had supplied the White Patriot Party, a white supremacist group, with explosives and weapons. In 1991 an Army Green Beret sergeant pleaded guilty to stockpiling weapons and explosives and funneling them to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Pentagon officials admit they are troubled by the existence...
UNESCO has proclaimed may 3 World Press Freedom Day. In the American consciousness this is not likely to rank with Mother's Day, Secretaries' Day, Pharmacists' Day, or even Kiss-Your-Mate Day, but it deserves some attention at a time when America is more dissatisfied than ever with its own media...
Political support for intelligence work swings like a pendulum. This quickly changing congressional environment, while understandable in its own terms, is not helpful to a law-enforcement agency. The behavior of rank-and-file government workers cannot be fine-tuned like a clock or made precisely sensitive to changing legislative moods. The members of any organization take their cues from the general posture of their superiors and clients. When the posture is threatening, the reaction is predictable: Pull back...