Word: rank
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...propose a new system. Unlike the present system, frosh would be required to rank all houses in order of preference. Then, similar to how it was done under the old system, a lottery would assign numbers secretly to each rooming group. Then, the FDO would grant each group's wishes according to its lottery number and preference list. The rooming group that received number one would receive their top choice. The rest of the rooming groups in order would then get their top choice contingent on its availability. Freshmen would then be notified of the results...
Interwoven with this story of an inescapable past is a more conventional one of an unattainable future. Terry Delaney is a night watchman and second-rank professional rugby player who suffers the double curse of discontent and lack of direction. He has no complaints about his wife but longs for passion. He hopes athletics can lead to a job in journalism or public relations, his vague image of an easy life. He is unsettled by the changes he sees in Roman Catholic tradition, epitomized by a closet-gay parish priest. When Delaney meets the Kabbelskis, Stanislaw's granddaughter Danielle seems...
...Palace to deliver a blunt assessment of the election outcome. With two years left to serve, Mitterrand quickly dispelled fears that he would try to use his powers to obstruct the new conservative majority. Said he: "This majority is numerically weak, but it exists. It is thus from its ranks that I will summon the person I will have chosen to form the new government." Leaning majestically forward, Mitterrand added, "As for me, I will strive both at home and abroad to defend our liberties, our independence, our commitment to Europe and our rank in the world." He thus laid...
...Republicans. After working his way through Columbia University and New York University School of Law, Jack Javits joined a law firm started by his older brother Ben. During World War II he received a commission with the Army's chemical-warfare department, emerging with the rank of lieutenant colonel and an offer from the impotent Manhattan G.O.P. to run for Congress in 1946 from New York City's heavily Jewish--and Democratic--Upper West Side. Javits won, and remained a Congressman for four terms...
Delegate Thomas H. Halpern '87 makes a motion to reconsider the wording of the referendum on the academic calendar. He proposes that the referendum ask students to rank in order of preference each of the third question's sub-proposals instead of just answering...