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Word: rank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museums now have an endowment of about $80 million and a collection of over 140,000 art works. And according to Walsh, they rank among the world's top four university museums, rivaling Oxford, Cambridge and Yale...

Author: By Sean L. Presant, | Title: Art Museums Director to Resign in June | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

Harvard's duo of sophomore goalies, Scott Salisbury (0.43 goals-against average) and Reilly (0.92), rank first and fourth, respectively, in the Ivy goalie statistics...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Men Booters Spoil Tigers' Ivy Hopes | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...Franciscans, however, were not ready for burial. They zealously pitched in to what must rank as one of the greatest comebacks in history. By April 23, plans for the first new downtown building were published, and others followed at a dizzying pace. They moved so fast that within weeks about 1,000 makeshift saloons were doing business and political fighting had broken out again. Ex- Mayor (also ex-Governor and ex-U.S. Senator) James Phelan, who lost a fortune in the disaster, led an attack on the corrupt municipal government with one hand and with the other helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First The Shaking, Then the Flames | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...ordered choice is quite similar to the present system. Students form rooming groups and can block together as they do now. Then, instead of ranking their top three choices in order, they pick (but don't rank) four houses that they would be happy in. The computer then puts the blocks in order at random as it does now, and it goes down the list, randomly choosing which of the four houses the group will live...

Author: By James C. Harmon, | Title: Choice Is the Best Policy | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...appointment is unique for another reason. Mas-Colell, a Spanish national with permanent resident status in the U.S., is considered a minority by the federal government's affirmative action criteria. There are no other minorities with the rank of associate dean or higher...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: From Franco's Spain to University Hall | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

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