Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard students should rank low-impact aerobics on a desirability scale somewhere between dining hall food...
...past two years, American women's history has gone completely untaught at Harvard, as the History Department simply neglected--or refused?--to fill a vacancy created when they did not promote Catherine Clinton to the rank of associate professor...
...often Atlantic City looks like a sneering caricature of untrammeled capitalism. (This may explain why terrorists threatening to retaliate against the U.S. on the third anniversary of the American bombing of Libya were rumored to have chosen Atlantic City as their target.) Along the Boardwalk stands a rank of casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard...
EVEN the oblivious reader will notice the parallels Clancy draws to the Iran Contra affair--the book's bad guy is a carbon copy of John Poindexter, right down to rank and service...
...depths of the "dirty war" of the late 1970s and early 1980s and successfully prosecuted leading members of the brutal military junta responsible for the "disappearance" of more than 9000 alleged "subversives" during this period, but he also tried to democratize the unions. Predictably, his legislation calling for rank-and-file elections of union leaders was defeated by Peronist opposition in the Senate...