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Word: rank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though in many subcultures vacation rank among the most symbolic of status symbols, few can legitimately add a trip there to their social resume. Any would be prephead who smugly remarks he has "a cottage near Hamilton," a town known for its night-life and shops full of duty-free liquor, is likely lying, because the Fermudan government has made it virtually impossible or foreigners to buy into choice property zones...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Springtime in Bermuda | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...said that it is not possible to rank Lum's find with other Yenching possessions because most of the library's collections are in other languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Librarian Finds 18th Century Manuscript | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...member police force. Meanwhile, the military had another Grenada revelation last week: five Army men and three Marines had broken the law by returning from the Caribbean island with Soviet- made automatic rifles obtained during the invasion in 1983. Most of the offenders, ranging in rank from enlisted men to a captain, have been court- martialed, discharged from the service and given prison sentences as long as seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military: Trophy Hunting in Grenada | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...called for five balky students: a jock (Emilio Estevez), a grind (Anthony Michael Hall), a punk (Judd Nelson), a deb (Molly Ringwald) and a feral cutie (Ally Sheedy) who eats Cap'n Crunch sandwiches and comports herself like a baby Maoist from May '68. They sit around and rank one another. They strike out, then strike bargains, then strike sparks of affection. By the end they are one big underage encounter group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is There Life After Teenpix? | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...energy, flamboyance and competence. During the past two years the number of arrests in Charleston has doubled, and the crime rate has tumbled. In the same period, not a shot was fired by police. His increased foot and mounted patrols pleased downtown businessmen, and he delighted the rank and file by taking to the streets himself when things got slow at headquarters. He has made dozens of % collars in his car, on foot and on horseback, and gained some national publicity when he nabbed a bicycle thief while roller-skating. As for the department, "our morale is the highest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The New Black Police Chiefs | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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