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Word: ranked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pluses and minuses are now ignored for purposes of placing students in the rank groups -- I through VI -- and on Dean's List. The Board yesterday, in effect, said that the College ought to be consistent and virtually ignore them in determining honors and Selective Service standing...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Administrative Board Asks Ranking Change For Honors and Draft | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...present system assigns rank the same way Phi Beta Kappa picks out students for possible election. An "A" is worth 12 points, and the scale goes down from there -- 11 points for an A-minus, 10 points for a B-plus, 9 points...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Administrative Board Asks Ranking Change For Honors and Draft | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...several Faculty members pointed out last Spring, the system is out of joint with the rank groups because it counts pluses and minuses...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Administrative Board Asks Ranking Change For Honors and Draft | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...Democratic fraternal strife in key states. What Barkan failed to mention-and Meany's investigation will hardly alter-is political history. As time and continuing prosperity erase memories of the great Depression and blunt purely economic issues, the Democrats cannot continue to count on reflex support from rank-and-file union members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Vanishing Vote | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Such scornful sentiments have helped to make shaggy, unorthodox Robert Maxwell, 43, Britain's most unpopular publisher - among other publishers. By acting on his beliefs, Maxwell has not only become a multimillionaire, but also in 15 years has lifted his Pergamon Press Ltd. from obscurity to No. 1 rank as a publisher of scientific and technical books (600 last year) and trade journals (120, from The Archives of Oral Biology to Problems of Cybernetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: To Halt the Retreat | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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