Word: rank
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...people noticed it at the time, but in 1947 Mann vaulted from nowhere to the top rank of directors. His filmography seems to explode, with movies as lurid and paranoid as their names. Desperate. Raw Deal. Railroaded! Great pulp titles, suitable for a trashy paperback, though they were all original screen stories. (The studios Mann worked for couldn't afford to option novels or plays; their writers had to make it up as they went along...
...their goal of taking back Congress in November. But that's wishful thinking. With the exception of those few candidates tied directly to Abramoff--Representative Bob Ney in Ohio and Senator Conrad Burns in Montana--it's unlikely that many Republicans will lose their seats over an issue Americans rank low on their list of concerns. If corruption were driving voters to the polls, Democrats should have won--or at least performed better in--the special election to fill the California House seat vacated by Duke Cunningham, the Republican jailed for taking bribes. But the Republican candidate...
...RIDE THEM? High-rank surfers rave about the flex; they can be custom shaped...
...lose out far trumps the benefits of the glory attached to such titles, according to Dr. Scott Hunter, a clinical psychologist and school consultant at the University of Chicago Hospitals who specializes in pediatric neuropsychology."The reality is that we have made in the last 10 years more of rank than it deserves because some kids don't really shine until they enter into adulthood, and they risk being ignored by the very places and people where they could greatly succeed," adds Hunter."This is an artificial number in terms of where a person really falls...
...makes it a little more opaque for us on the admissions side, but we fully understand it," said Jim Miller, director of admissions at Brown University. "It's conceivable a student could get a B in gym and get knocked down 40 places in rank. So we're getting more used to it, and probably half our applicants now come from schools that don't have rank. You just have to ascertain, through student profiles and other means, the strength of a schedule and student performance relative to other students...