Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ending too is a long era of inexpensive phone service that Americans have taken for granted. But just on the horizon, heralding its arrival with the attention-getting power of a jillion jangling telephones, is a revolution in telecommunications. Propelled by both marketing and technology, the coming changes will rank second in importance only to the establishment of the U.S. telephone system itself, acknowledged as the world's best...
Experts had predicted the finish from the first count, but the final results were delayed by Cambridge's antiquated system of proportional representation. Under this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference, and candidates are elected when they reach a quota or percentage of all votes. Their surplus votes and the votes of eliminated candidates are redistributed to the next person listed on each ballot...
...almost any academic yardstick available--though any such numerical comparison is crude--Harvard fares much better than Yale. A study conducted by the Conference Board of Associated Research Council recently assessed the "reputations" of faculty members in 32 fields. Harvard had 22 departments rank in the top 10, Yale...
...year ago just two disputed points separated Penn and Harvard. Before Saturday, Harvard trailed by a game in the Ivy standings; on paper, there was little reason to rank one team above the other...
...consensus of the congress, following Mitterrand's lead, was that rigor had to be sustained for another year or more, but that ways must be found to ease the pain of economic sacrifice. Mitterrand and the party leadership were responding to pressure from trade unions and Socialist rank and file. André Bergeron, leader of Force Ouvrière, an independent but largely pro-Socialist labor confederation, warned that "the government has reached limits that cannot be exceeded without jeopardizing the social equilibrium...