In fact, a 1796 citation in the OED says “rank and file means … the corporals and private soldiers.” In the 19th century, according to the OED, the usage was extended to include “the ordinary members of an organization (esp. a political party or trade union), as opposed to its ...
【Line】 , 【row】 , 【rank】 , 【file】 , 【echelon】 , 【tier】 are comparable when meaning a series of things arranged in continuous or uniform order. 【Line】 means little more than this, except when it is attached to a specific application that increases its implications; thus, a...
Hydrogen Bonds in Coal -The Influence of Coal Rank and the Recognition of a New Hydrogen Bond in Coal By means of in-situ diffuse reflectance FTIR, the IR spectra of 6 coals with different ranks were obtained from room temperature to 230 ℃. A new curve fit... LI Dong-Tao,LI Wen,LI...
RolandandTristan and Iseult. It was also part of the education of a knight. In Western Europe the chessboard became two-colored, whereas in the East it was of a single color. Special writings on the game, edifying works called moralities, encouraged the playing of chess as a means of ...
There is disclosed a system and method for executing a multi-user virtual sports industry simulation. In an embodiment, the system comprising means for receiving a plurality of user-controllable inputs relating to each user's economic st... HULME, Cory, B.,LLOYD, Timothy, P.,LYNCH, Yasmine...
Since most of the deceased CPAs in our sample are not signing CPAs who lead audit projects, our results illustrate the significant negative impact of peer death on work performance at the rank-and-file employee level. As employee deaths are frequently linked to the prevalent burnout culture ...
1. A sudden, unexpected change in asecurity'spriceor in amarket'svalue. While a break could indicate either upward or downward change, the connotation is negative. Especially on thefutures market, a break means a steep decline in price, usually the result of a natural disaster affecting the...
The EPA spent the past four years demoralized and belittled, with an exodus among rank-and-file staff. That means hiring hundreds of scientists just to fill vacancies. In his last job as North Carolina's top environmental regulator,... JA Dlouhy,S Lee - 《Environment & Energy Report》 被...
[contemporary] journals, we have tended to look too little at other means of communicating ideas'.1 Over twenty years later her comment stands largely unheeded, and a recent article on Chartist communication concentrates almost exclusively on newspaper articles, editorials and reported public speeches....
THE RANK AND FILE PUTTING TOGETHER ARSA'S ANNUAL Conference-which brings members of the maintenance community to the U.S. capital city each March-means meshing new activities like a full day of \"Executive to Executive Briefings\" with the standard \"tent... B Levanto - 《Aircraft Maintenanc...