Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University immediately seems like a very cold and hostile place to the newcomer, and superficially it is. The Administration cares little whether an individual student sinks or swims...One can easily spend four years in Cambridge without meeting a Faculty member of higher rank than teaching fellow, and it is possible to receive a gentleman's C with little or no work and have the only permanent trace of one's presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card." Pre-Registration Issue, September...
Since then, across the state line, the pollution has provoked indignation that sometimes seems as rank as the river itself. On the Tennessee side, people complain that the river's repugnant color and stench contribute to Cocke County's prolonged economic doldrums by discouraging tourists and development. With an unemployment rate currently averaging 15%, Cocke Countians openly envy the relative prosperity in Haywood County, home of the paper mill (present unemployment average: 6%). Says Cocke County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert Seay, co-founder of the Dead Pigeon River Council, which wants to clean up the stink...
...British journalist. During the quarter-century between his defection to the Soviet Union, for which he had been spying since the 1930s, and his death last week at 76 of undisclosed causes, Philby's legend grew to mythic proportions. Still active in the KGB, where he rose to the rank of general, Philby wrote a cryptic 1968 memoir, My Silent War, and gave only a handful of interviews. Yet his life and those of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, two fellow British double agents whom he helped escape in 1951, inspired countless plays, films, novels and biographies. In spy fiction...
...prospects for further Harvard success in the tournament are slim at best, however. Syracuse hasn't lost--at home, on the road, anywhere. A win in the Carrier Dome this Sunday would rank as Harvard's biggest victory ever...
Although the evangelical leadership pledged their support to a president as telegenic as they were in the last two elections, this time around endorsements from the discredited, scandalized preachers will hold much less weight. Rank-and-file believers are still the type of people that the Democratic party has traditionally attracted--poor Southerners...