Word: uniformization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several weeks later, after pondering her options, Hoster complained to two male superiors and asked for a reassignment. In August, her pleas unanswered for two months, she retired to Texas after 22 years in uniform. She says she decided to file a formal complaint only recently, after Army Secretary Togo West Jr. named McKinney to an Army panel charged with combatting sexual harassment. Following Hoster's action, McKinney left the panel until the case is resolved. West says he didn't know of the accusation until last week...
...punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech, then handed out the wings. "I was the first guy in line, and he pinned it on my uniform and gave me the punch. The thing would go into your chest, break the skin, draw blood, but every day we had bigger bruises and bumps than that. We looked at our wings very pridefully, put the clips on the back, sat down and had dinner--and that...
Karl, a poignant, complicated character, came to Thornton on the set of a cable movie, 1987's The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains. "It was hot," he says, "and I had a conductor's uniform on with a collar up to here. My part wasn't going well because the director wanted me to overact. At lunch I was thinking how everyone else on the set was a real actor and I was a nobody. I started making faces at myself in the mirror and started talking in that voice. I looked so goofy, I just went, Eeeewegh. Then...
There is a relaxed, nonhierarchical atmosphere as the seven young managers of the "WebDVD" group, all in the standard winter uniform of khakis and flannel shirts, gather in a windowless conference room near Gates' office. They have been working for almost a year on a digital videodisc intended to provide content along with Web browsing for television sets, and he wants to review their progress before leaving for Japan, where he will meet with such potential partners as Toshiba...
...cadet from West Point leaned forward in his gray uniform and said he wasn't comfortable with the U.N.'s apparent desire to create a supranational army using U.S. troops. Another student said we should stop paying our U.N. dues and starve the international government into submission...