Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with flashy clothes and cars and goodness knows how many mill in the bank, was out there doing a fancy two-step with this bull about the size of a Volkswagen, when all of a sudden another guy climbed into the ring. His name was Miguelin; he was a rank contender, but he thought he ought to be champ. So what did Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull, put one hand on its shoulder, another on its rear end, and spun it right around in a circle. Then he kissed the bull...
...television and radio coverage engrossed the consciousness and conscience of a nation. The pronouncements of official bereavement, the calls for constructive action, for conciliation, for wisdom, all were unexceptionable. The United Nations lowered its flag to half-staff?an unprecedented tribute to one of Kennedy's modest official rank. Pope Paul announced at a formal audience the shooting of the junior Senator from New York. Condolences came from Charles de Gaulle, Aleksei Kosygin, Queen Elizabeth, Marshal Tito and scores of other world leaders...
...cash salaries and bonuses paid in Britain and five of the Common Market nations, the U.S. management-consultant firm of Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby found that, over the past eight years, British executives have slipped from fifth to last place in the pay scale. French and Italian executives now rank at the top, ahead of Germans (who were No. 1 in 1960), Belgians and the Dutch, who happily yielded the cellar to the British...
Cambridge's unique electoral system, Proportional Representation (PR), assures that the diversity of the City will be reflected in the City council. Under PR, voters rank their choices for Council in order (1, 2, 3, etc.). A quota for election is set; after a candidate has reached the quota, his surplus votes are redistributed among his supporters' second choices. After several days of such shuffling, a new council is finally elected. Few Cambridge residents outside of political circles understand the mechanics of the system; all the politicians know its implication--the way to get elected is to seize and hold...
...Dean Ford commented that the Faculty was probably glutted on academic liberalization for the year. But early in the spring the CEP approved what looked to be the most radical change of all--opening Independent Study (previously a haven for honors Juniors and Seniors) to all upperclassmen in all rank list groups. Actually the CEP was doing little more than validating what it found to be the evolutionary development of Independent Study. It had originally been intended as course reduction to accommodate eccentric schemes of the college's best students, but now about 300 students per term use the program...