Word: outranking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armed forces on the work of psychologists. Indeed, studies done for the military cost $68 million this year, about 35% of all federally funded psychological research. In his new book, War on the Mind (Basic Books, $17.50), Watson says that the Pentagon's forays into psychology "outrank most other military research projects when it comes to cruelty, deception, ingenuity and sheer absurdity...
...leave to the Monty Python team and other functional surrealists the comic possibilities of the royal family's getting into show biz, contracting out for guest appearances and bickering over billing. (Would the Queen get first billing over the title because of royal privilege, or would Steiger outrank her because he won an Oscar?) Hennessy, the matter at hand, turns out to be a reasonably stout if rather unoriginal thriller about an Irish demolitions expert who swears vengeance on the British Empire...
...scale fees for modeling gigs ($100 an hour). By the time her 20th birthday came round in February, Margaux had posed for a Vogue cover, was starring at celebrity-jammed parties, and had announced her engagement to Boy Friend Errol Wetson. On the pop scales, Margaux was beginning to outrank even Mick Jagger. Clearly, something big was about to happen to Margaux. Sure enough, in the middle of May, just 249 days after her arrival in Manhattan, she landed the biggest advertising contract ever given to a woman: $1 million from Fabergé to promote a new, unnamed scent. Said...
...favor, seems now to have been in genuinely poor health. Party Vice Chairman Teng Hsiao-ping, who took over many of Chou's duties, continues to be prominently featured in the press. Significantly too, party members who are associated with China's outgoing foreign policy continue to outrank most of the radicals...
Buildings outrank people, creature comfort comes before the cultivation of creativity, and everybody owes the arts a living. Or so the song goes...