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The job-shedding will further shrink the industry’s rank and file after a yearslong diet of layoffs, attrition and corporate restructuring that has made Big Oil much leaner.

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That Rangers have four draws and a defeat to show for their other Premiership outings this term is what still rankles with the rank and file.

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At the top of the Labour Party it's common to find frustration that the rank and file don't all appreciate what they see as the cold facts.

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There is also consternation among rank and file too.

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What has been illustrated this week is that the leadership has not understood what its rank and file are willing to tolerate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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