Word: rank
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Brown has an even bigger hole at quarterback. Senior Rank Landers was the Ivy's second-rated passer last year, but last spring he signed a major league baseball contract with the Minnesota Twins, a decision which made him ineligible for any Ivy League athletic program...
...early '70s, organized labor generally fulfilled an unwritten compact with its members by getting them more of everything. With the implicit partnership of employers, who often agreed to an expensive settlement rather than risk a painful strike, union leaders regularly won new contracts for the rank and file that guaranteed more pay, better benefits, improved working conditions and additional days...
...horse who won $1 million in purses was worth $1 million as a stallion. Today a million-dollar winner is worth $20 million at stud. One outstanding example is Northern Dancer, whose offspring Sangster often buys. Almost gelded because of his questionable conformation and rank temperament, the 1964 Kentucky Derby winner is now the world's greatest living superstud: 85 of his progeny (one in five) are stakes winners. His going rate is $300,000, but his 14 get at Keeneland were sold for an average of $888,571 each. The 21-year-old still covers 40 mares each...
Kemp presided over a two-hour discussion. Letter writing and rank-and-file pressure on Congress, the group decided, would be the principal tactics. The rich (1982 receipts: $4 million) National Conservative Political Action Committee will send letters to every Congressman, reminding each of the organization's campaign-funding clout. Viguerie will use the mail to deputize as lobbyists 4,500 conservatives outside Washington. The group agreed, however, to walk that fine, perhaps imaginary line between disagreement with and disloyalty to the President. Insists Supply-Side Apostle Roberts: "There were more Reaganites in that room than there...
...year. Turner's troubles have led many industry observers to predict that within the next year or two he will have to sell or take in a partner, or else see CNN go bankrupt (the total value of his holdings: $250 million to $300 million, says a top-rank video executive). Turner's financing includes $50 million in loans at steep interest from Citicorp and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. In borrowing from them, he estimated losses of $32 million from CNN's start through the first half of this year; he is $6 million over that total...