Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the Prague center, presently ranked 20th in Czechoslovakia in his age group: "I am sacrificing everything, including training and education for a normal job, for tennis. If I am not a good player, then I am nothing." The payoff: a chance to travel freely in the West, rake in hard-currency winnings, and live better than Central Committee members. Any player 18 or over with 120 points on the international tennis rating scale in singles or 60 points in doubles, or who is a member of the Davis, King's or Federation Cup teams, can launch...
...carbon copies. Two are distinct improvements. As Vincent Crummles, proprietor of a hammily inept acting troupe, Tony Jay is a figure of majesty, an artist surrounded by buffoons whose incompetence he must overlook because some of the worst are members of his family. As Lord Frederick Verisopht, the luxuriating rake who accosts Nicholas' sister, Simon Templeman reveals a dreamy, drunken boy, easily misled, whose final repentance thus makes sense...
Cardiologist Felix Balasco was the pacemaker king of Rhode Island. In the 1970s he implanted more of the devices than any other doctor in the state--a practice that helped him rake in more than $100,000 a year from Medicare patients alone. Balasco's penchant for pacemakers was well known to colleagues, his hospital and insurers. A peer review five years ago confirmed that dozens of his implants were unnecessary and had put patients in needless danger. But not until this year, when he was convicted for taking kickbacks from pacemaker manufacturers, did the medical board attempt to slow...
...theatre the actors are coming to grips with the extra-large stage. The front row of seats has been removed to provide for an angled extension called a rake. Although the actors are closer to the audience on the rake, they also must take care not to be swamped in the hugeness of the spacial void. At the same time, the stage crew is learning to time the raising and lowering of the various set components, including three enormous palm trees. Special care is given to the scrim, or see-through cloth; it belongs to the American Repertory Theatre...
...ranging from one-person shops to partnerships employing hundreds of C.P.A.s. But the problems afflicting the industry have adhered most dramatically to the so-called Big Eight of the profession: the firms that audit more than 90% of the financial statements of the FORTUNE 500 largest industrial corporations and rake in nearly 40% of the accounting industry's annual revenues of about $10 billion...