Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ninth or tenth largest U.S. industrial company-even though it gets only 16% of its oil production and 32% of its sales from the U.S. Orphaned from their corporate parent, Exxon's petrochemical operations, which produce materials that go into fertilizers, records, pantyhose and myriad other products, would rank about fifth among U.S. chemical companies. If Exxon merely transported oil, it would be the world's biggest shipping firm, with 155 tankers of its own and varying numbers under charter at sea. In finance it is a substantial international banker, holding fortunes in marks, yen, francs, pounds and dollars...
Rising Exxonians are never quite sure where they rank on any list; superiors discuss with them only their performance, not their potential. That system reaches one rung short of the top. Clifton Garvin Jr. insists that when directors named him Exxon's president in July 1972, he was surprised. Though Garvin was one of two executive vice presidents, no one had ever told him that he was at the top of Jamieson's list of possible future presidents...
Freshman sensation and Australian national team member Peter Tetlow has been spectacular so far this year, setting two University records in the 500 freestyle and 1000-yard freestyle with two marks that rank among the country's best this winter. But these two swimmers don't comprise the entire team. Backstroker Tom Wolfe, junior Dave Brumwell, sprinter Tim Neville, and captain freestyler Fred Mitchell each contributed key wins in the Princeton meet, and a host of others supplied vital second- and third-place points...
...also looking forward to Tuesday's match with 0-3 Dartmouth. The Big Green is still smarting from slaughters at the hands of Cornell and Columbia, and according to Lee, "rank as another team that we should beat...
...wisely, considering the Met's declivity for dance) and edited the work down to three acts, running a relatively tidy 3½ hours. Then there were the principal singers: Sopra no Montserrat Caballe, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Baritone Sherrill Milnes, Bass Justino Diaz. They constituted the kind of front-rank cast that the company does not regularly assemble these days. Nor does the Met orchestra play every day with the snap and precision that it gave Conductor Levine...