Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat of the financing plan for presidential elections is yet another thorn to prick the moral indignation of millions of Americans. The nation now has cause to wonder why the Senate should shy away from a bill that would eliminate illegal corporate contributions, political extortions, and the type of rank criminality that stemmed from a $60 million campaign fund in 1972. The congressional record stands at 0-1 on attempts made to ensure against future Watergates...
Both are the first blacks to be elected to run their cities. Both take office with solid assurances of aid and support from not only the black but the white leadership of their communities. And both confront first and foremost the problem of street crime: their cities rank among the highest in the U.S. in homicide rates. A tale of two cities and their new mayors, Coleman Young of Detroit and Maynard Jackson of Atlanta...
Extended vacations are only one way in which the nation's educators are struggling to conserve scarce and ever-more-expensive fuel. Schools rank relatively low in the national priorities for heating oil and gasoline. So they must husband every ounce if they are to get through the academic year (180 days in most public systems) with their programs reasonably fulfilled. For some, that entails closing in the chill of winter and making up the lost time during the spring and early summer vacation periods. New York City is looking at several contingency plans, including one calling for four...
...public's confidence in all institutions. But it is fair to ask: Were things really better when respectability was in flower and authority spoke in plummy, assured tones? Historians, whose occupational peculiarity is to find the past at least as interesting as the present, are certain to rank Watergate paramount on any list of presidential misdeeds, but that is not to say that they will regard the present as more corrupt than earlier times. In fact, less so. To think otherwise is to fail to appreciate the high savor of Boss Tweed's New York or General Grant...
Floating Residency. "Our sound is flowing," explains French Horn Player Barry Benjamin from behind a bristling walrus mustache. "It would be ideal if we never had to breathe-although Olivier's breathing never harmed his Hamlet." Even pausing for breath, the Dorian has achieved an increasingly secure rank as one of chamber music's most sparkling and eloquent ensembles. In 1969 Brooklyn College appointed its members to posts on the music faculty. At about the same time, the State University of New York assigned the group to a "floating residency" consisting of one-to four-day concert-lecture...