Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Held called the book "shoddy pseudo-scholarshipand rank anti-Semitism...
HERE IT COMES AGAIN, THAT HARSH Ross Perot plan. Whoever would have expected that a tract on deficit reduction could captivate people and rank as a best- selling book? In United We Stand, Perot tells how he would raise gasoline taxes 50 cents per gal., boost the top income-tax rate from 31% to 33% and whack 10% out of spending for programs ranging from medical research to highway construction. The goal of such tough actions: to slash the federal deficit and balance the budget in five years. "What Perot has done is to put some real beef...
Medved has tapped into a general queasiness about pop culture, and not just from religious and social conservatives. A large segment of the public senses that the trash has risen to eye and ear level, and it smells rank. Freddy Krueger slices his way into little girls' minds, and Madonna's siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman...
Donley is not alone in asserting that modern culture may not rank high on the priority list...
...Wednesday, students will rank five candidates from the field on the ballot. It is likely that a student will not know five candidates personally, and end up voting for at least one on the basis of name recognition. If simple name recognition could gain even the lowest of the five votes on the majority of ballots for a candidate, his or her election would be almost inevitable. Thus, a voter could unknowingly undermine his or her own candidate's chances by filling in all the blanks on the ballot...