Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...based research firm. It will conduct six surveys for us, three during the primaries and three more following the party conventions. Building on the body of data gathered up in two years of quarterly TIME Soundings, the last of which appears in this issue, these polls will not only rank the candidates but also plumb changing voter attitudes. The goal is to study America while it is evaluating the candidates...
...Pasqualini begs relief from the warder for everyone involved: "He admits he stole the bread. He was hungry. Isn't that enough? Do we have to make him say he is a dirty bourgeois because he was hungry?" The warder responds with an incontrovertible object lesson. Pulling a few rank flowers out of a bottle, he empties the murky water and asks the rebel to refill it, without rinsing the glass. As he does so, the grimy residue mixes with the water again. "That's how it is with your cellmate," the warder puts in, "There are dirty things...
...Nixon's White House team captains were rank amateurs in the operation of government. Through arrogance, superficiality, ignorance and ethical insensitivity they could destroy the very people they hoped to use to their political advantage. These irresponsible, superficially bright children were playing with the awesome power of the presidency, unmindful of the inherent danger to themselves and the nation in the misuse of that power...
What's more, Go is to Japan what baseball is to America: a national pastime. Japanese newspapers sponsor millions in prize money for Go each year. Children train from infancy to become Go masters. The top Go player in the world--who holds the same rank that Bruce Lee held in "kung fu"--rakes in a six-figure salary. In Japan, Go is where the money...
...month-though many corps veterans still believe the wrong general was sacked. Initially, Fair was to have retired with a three-star general's pension-roughly $38,000 including various emoluments. But some Congressmen raised objections, and the Army retired him at his permanent two-star (major general) rank instead. That will cost the 32-year veteran as much as $3,000 a year...