All 5 Uses of
seniority
in
Atlas Shrugged
- …members of the National Alliance of Railroads were forbidden to engage in practices defined as "destructive competition"; that in regions declared to be restricted, no more than one railroad would be permitted to operate; that in such regions, seniority belonged to the oldest railroad now operating there, and that the newcomers, who had encroached unfairly upon its territory, would suspend operations within nine months after being so ordered; that the Executive Board of the National…†
Chpt 1.4
- That's been my business for years, I have the right of seniority, it isn't fair, it's dog-eat-dog competition, newcomers shouldn't be allowed to muscle in.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Seniority of service was his favorite topic of complaint and sole standard of value; he had been in the railroad business longer than many men who had advanced beyond him; this, he said, was proof of the social system's injustice-though he never explained just what he meant by "the social system.†
Chpt 2.7
- They had a waiting list too, the Hammond Car Company, only they didn't go by friendships and they didn't go by seniority, they went by a man's record.†
Chpt 2.10
- By seniority.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(seniority) higher in rank than others -- especially by reason of longer service