Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the city's proportional representation (PR) system, voters rank each candidate. Once candidates have garnered enough first-place votes to exceed an established quota, first-place rankings are shifted to the voter's next-highest-ranked candidate...
...every Weyrich arguing that it's time for new tactics, there are conservatives who are just as adamant about staying in the game--and there's no sign that the Christian Coalition rank and file is retreating into the wilderness. Activist Gary Bauer is running for President decrying the "virtue deficit." James Dobson of Focus on the Family invokes Churchill: "Never give in; never, never, never." Yes, the G.O.P. has been morally lazy, but if social conservatives abandon the struggle, he writes, "then hope is lost...
...eaten, item by item, in the last week: "Two Snickers bars, eight cups of soup, one serving of baked scrod...".Update us on your nightly dreams. Transcribe your internal monologue in the most minute detail: "Itchy feeling in neck. Where did I put the keys? Damned aerosol." Rank the hottest people in your house. Tell us what you're wearing, right...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, student groups may be on the top of students' priority lists, but administrators rank other needs higher...
Enrique Hank Lopez, author of The Harvard Mystique, argues that the existing dichotomy between the Yard and the Gold Coast encouraged a rank-conscious Harvard population...