Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marion's experience points up one major qualification to the rapid rise in U.S.-Soviet trade: mainly because of financing difficulties, it is still not growing as rapidly as Western European and Japanese exports to the U.S.S.R. Indeed, in the past year the U.S. has fallen from second rank (behind West Germany) among the Soviet Union's non-Communist suppliers to seventh. The ranking is unlikely to change, because the Soviets are buying from other countries even more eagerly than from the U.S. Moscow last year bought four artificial fertilizer plants from the U.S.; it ordered the next...
...characterized by lack of consultation, indiscipline and even neglect." Mohammed, though, was not vengeful. He said that Gowon would be welcome to return to Nigeria "as soon as conditions are such that his security can be guaranteed." The ousted leader, moreover, would be awarded a "full pension befitting his rank...
...African Unity in Kampala last week easily lived up-or down-to expectations. "I will not embarrass you because of the confidence you have shown in me," "Big Daddy" promised as he became OAU chairman for the coming year. Nonetheless President Amin-who had generously promoted himself to the rank of field marshal for the occasion-proceeded to put on a divertissement that could not fail to embarrass delegates who had come to Kampala for serious business...
...almost aggressive. Onscreen, he draws attention to himself in a curiously negative way, as if he were a marked man. Who else, for example, would allow himself to be cast as the only actor ever to kill John Wayne onscreen? In 1971, while Dern was still stuck in second-rank roles, he signed on in The Cowboys as Wayne's assassin. "Dern," said the Duke kindly, "you're gonna be hated everywhere in the world for this...
...arrived at the Olympic Camp at Harvard, seat racing had been used to trim the number to 11. As the crowds thinned out, the pressure had grown less and less intense; no longer was there a swarm of women to speculate about, to compare yourself to, to try to rank in lists. Now everyone knew more or less where they stood. It only remained to eliminate one more person, and the ten women who would represent the United States at the World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England at the end of the month would be chosen, settled. Except, of course...