Word: rank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard students and alumni rank first in the nation in terms of social prestige and achievement, according to a recent study published in "Hawes' Comprehensive Guide to Colleges...
Republicans Greenspan, Sprinkel and Washington University Professor Murray Weidenbaum strongly oppose guidelines and do not believe they would work: even if union leaders negotiated moderate wage pacts, rank-and-filers would vote them down. Weidenbaum adds that the result might be strikes?by the Teamsters, for example?that could tip the economy into a recession he does not now expect. The Republican board members believe that inflationary fever can be lowered only by the slow-acting medicines of lower federal spending, reduced deficits and moderate growth in the money supply...
...mayor of a tiny provincial Russian town, whose name, Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency, has been tipped off that a government agent of high rank is coming, incognito, to inspect local fiscal affairs. Since the mayor (The odore Bikel) and his appointed underlings are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably panicky...
...Sociologists Richard Coleman and Lee Rainwater's study of class in America, what their statistical Mr. Mim, the man-in-the-middle, likes to call his social standing. Yet the deeper one gets into the data and analysis of this book, the clearer it becomes that how Americans rank themselves is not a subject cashed in too quickly...
...humble about confusing their models with immutable truths. They may not have the lively journalistic bounce of an Alvin Toffler or the fluid drive of a Vance Packard, but Social Standing's scholarship adds some fascinating discriminations. For example, though money is the basic yardstick people use to rank themselves, income is only a component of status, not its cause. Education is the prime means to higher income - which is then translated into higher status. But schooling that does not lead to a high-paying job earns few points. And the status value of education seems to be slipping...