Word: outrank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ohio, and female mayors elsewhere were easily reelected. Houstonians gave businesslike Mayor Kathy Whitmire, 37, a second term by a lopsided (64% to 35%) margin. San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein was even more unstoppable: her five challengers together could muster only 21% of the vote. Collins of Kentucky may outrank her, but Feinstein, 50, has more Democratic Party clout than any other woman...
...Ebla may outrank them all. For the tablets reveal the unsuspected existence of an urbane culture that gathered some 30,000 traders, farmers, bureaucrats, artisans and an extraordinary academy of scribes within the circular walls of a great commercial city. Moreover, Ebla dominated an outlying area of perhaps 300,000 people, one of the largest populations of any ancient city-state. The discovery has closed the archaeological gap between Egypt and, to the east, Sumer...