Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When it comes time to play, you have to forget reputations, concentrate on the game, and forget the past," the freshman says. "If I go on thinking about seed or rank, I'll lose...
...preliminary round of voting for marshals runs tomorrow and Friday. It uses the so-called Hare System, where voters rank all the candidates by preference...
There are certain inalienable rights, and of course freedom of choice and expression rank high among them. Ideally no vote should result in the removal of such rights, but oftentimes a public confused by demagoguery does just that. Cambridge officials were right to withhold the anti-porn measure from a public referendum. They are still right even if, as the majority contends, the measure would have certainly failed, in court if not on the ballot. In fact it is their duty as elected officials to protect the public from voting away a liberty...
Soviet workers, from pipefitters to Politburo members, receive state- subsidized vacations that differ as dramatically as the jobs they perform. Prominent members of the Communist Party and leading scientists luxuriate in secluded, heavily guarded mansions, supplied courtesy of the state. Even second-rank officials usually have a country house at their disposal. Tens of millions of their less exalted countrymen employ their wits and their blat (arm twisting and family connections) to gain entry to beachfront hotels, often located on the former estates of the prerevolutionary Russian aristocracy. Another much sought- after holiday choice for active trade-union members...
...political cartoonist for the magazine L'Express, was commissioned by Culture Minister Jack Lang as part of a program to promote French sculpture. Tim wanted the bronze to be placed in the courtyard of L'Ecole Militaire, the academy where in 1895 Dreyfus was stripped of his rank for allegedly passing secrets to the Germans. But Defense Minister Charles Hernu rejected the idea, claiming that the courtyard is not a public place...