Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have never been interested in rank and to a certain extent even in popularity. In my view, anyone who thinks he creates history is stupid. Everyone should attend to the job at hand. If it becomes a part of history...
...excavation and salvaging now under way, thousands of sunken ships remain undiscovered and many others unexplored. A few rank particularly high on the wish lists of marine archaeologists and treasure hunters. For four years an INA team led by Archaeologist Roger Smith has been scouring Jamaica's St. Ann's Bay for two of Columbus' caravels thought to have been intentionally run aground in 1503. "The caravels that Columbus sailed to the New World were the Mercury space capsules of their day," he says. "And somewhere beneath the soft sediments of this bay there...
...student's sibling can enter at half the regular tuition of $5,670. One critic of such gambits is Bard President Leon Botstein, who scorns them as "desperate marketing of a silly kind" designed for show rather than education. Citing his plan, which is limited to students who rank among the top ten in their high school classes, Botstein says, "We've thrown a gauntlet down to other places on the issues of quality and merit...
...final days of Rome, the historian Ammianus Marcellinus noted, "The modern nobles measure their rank and consequence according to the loftiness of their chariots." If old Marcellinus were around today he might be fretting about the future of the U.S., because we are about to put the President in the loftiest chariot that man has yet devised...
...Louis-based May Department Stores seems to be thinking only of expansion. Last week May, which operates 2,206 outlets, proposed a friendly merger with Associated Dry Goods, a New York City-based chain with 454 stores, among them Lord & Taylor. Experts estimate that the new company would rank among the top five retailers...