Word: ranked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elections in Cambridge are conducted under a unique proportional representation system, which allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates, and then redistributes votes to the next candidate marked on the ballot once candidates reach a quota of approximately 10 percent of the ballots cast...
Once the news spread, so did a lot of other people. When the acquisition is complete, Time Warner will regain its rank as the world's largest media company, ahead of the newly combined Walt Disney and Capital Cities/ABC. "This is far and away the dream deal," boasts Levin, who called the merger with Turner "a sublime combination." The deal brings together a vast collection of brand names in Time Warner's movie, music and publishing divisions (including TIME magazine) and Turner's cable and TV news operations...
...prices for Apple's computers were high compared with the more competitive IBM-clone market, and the Mac found itself increasingly limited to the niches it now tenuously occupies: schools and desktop publishing. The rank-and-file computer buyer was less interested in exquisite engineering than in sticker price. Apple's share has dropped from about 15% of the personal computer market...
...corporate world, according to personnel executives, IQ gets you hired, but EQ gets you promoted. Goleman likes to tell of a manager at AT&T's Bell Labs, a think tank for brilliant engineers in New Jersey, who was asked to rank his top performers. They weren't the ones with the highest IQs; they were the ones whose E-mail got answered. Those workers who were good collaborators and networkers and popular with colleagues were more likely to get the cooperation they needed to reach their goals than the socially awkward, lone-wolf geniuses...
...student, Steinberg has good reason to support Specter, whose pledges to balance the budget and begin to pay off the national debt rank at the top of his agenda. The accumulating burden of debt service is destroying our nation's ability to spend productively. Red ink is the red menace of our time; in Specter we have a man willing to eliminate...