Word: ret
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McGrath later chided attendees for fallingasleep during the speech, which concerned safetyand courtesy aboard Navy vessels and was deliveredby Ret. Capt. George Street, a World War IIveteran and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient...
...Kazo, the town where he lived, "the people are thought of as hicks by the ret of Japan." However, Frusztajer says, "I found the Japanese very status conscious. On the way home from the train station, I learned how much [my host father's] house, car and watch cost. It was very important for him to know the same things about my family...
Among businessmen, the bishops' letter evoked mixed responses. "I came away with a feeling that these are well-meaning people who really don't understand our capitalistic system," said Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. (ret.), chairman of Milwaukee-based American Medical Buildings. But Roger Altman, managing director of Shearson Lehman/American Express and a self-described "serious Catholic," was sympathetic. Said he: "Our society has an obligation to the underprivileged, and the degree to which we haven't made progress in raising their living standards is enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon...
Captain, U.S.N. (ret...
...simulation used computer software and a written scenario, which were recently developed by William Martel, a strategic modelist, and Lt. Col. Ret. Paul Savage, a professor of political science at St. Anselm's College...