Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some first-rate private colleges seem bargain-priced: Beloit is $4,595 and Grinnell $4,620. Top-rank public universities cost even less; the University of California at Berkeley is $2,174 for state residents, and the University of Michigan...
...says that all too many of his city's affluent "swimming-pool Communists" pose a serious threat to law-and-order. Respectable citizens, he says, should arm themselves to ward off domestic terrorism, and to be ready for some as yet undefined coastal invasion. Pot smokers also rank high on the chief's enemies' list. Last spring Davis dispatched 75 officers to a series of rock concerts, and they rounded up over 500 fans...
Hockey is perhaps the most competitive sport at Harvard because of the large number of top-quality players Harvard has, top-quality enough to rank Harvard second in the nation last year, and a perennial ECAC tournament qualifier...
...control of quakes would be an enormous victory over nature at its crudest. Along with war and pestilence, earthquakes rank as one of the world's great killers. Striking without warning, opening great fissures in mankind's ultimate sanctuary of terra firma, quakes have inspired terror and awe since man first walked the earth. During recorded history, earthquakes-and the floods, fires and landslides they have triggered -are estimated to have taken as many as 74 million lives (see box next page...
...discovery is confirmed by further experiments, the American Institute of Physics and the University of California are both convinced that "it could rank as one of the major scientific events of the century." It would fill in some gaps in current scientific theory, modify present ideas about the basic building blocks of matter, and might eventually have significant practical applications in research, medicine and the generation of energy...