Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Locust, the honky-tonk waitress Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces, the low-down and libidinous Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby, and the victimized Monkey in Portnoy's Complaint. Right now she is within hailing distance of being what she calls "a first-rank star...
...American in the Gulag is the record of those lost years. Within the genre of Russian prison literature, Dolgun's memoir may rank only as a sort of rough appendix. It is none too carefully composed and, in places, overwritten. But it brings home truths about bureaucratic cruelty and individual endurance all the more effectively for U.S. readers because the author, though he had spent much of his life in Russia, was an American. In prison he passionately held on to his American identity, steadily regarding himself as an unlikely candidate for political martyrdom. After all, a mistake...
...cards often has no correlation to the election results. As an NLRB official said last week, "People will sign anything, but voting to join a union is a much more serious commitment." Perhaps the best way to gauge the probable result is to try and determine the degree of rank-and-file participation in the organizing committee's work. Using this standard, the chances for District 65 at the Medical Area seem quite good. Membership meetings are generally well attended--some have attracted nearly 200 employees--and policy motions often come from people not in leadership positions...
UMass President Robert C. Wood said the university would be forced to rank its programs by priority because a 10 per cent cut applied across the board would weaken every program...
However, Sam Butler might well rank as the single most outstanding participant in the meet. Butler won the 440 low and 120 intermediate hurdles, and then anchored the winning Crimson mile relay, holding off B.C.'s class runner Keith Francis on the final...