Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yemens this May.) Integrationists point to the E.C. as the wave of the future, the only hope for peace and prosperity on a planet already suffering from a surfeit of sovereignty. Self-styled realists like Margaret Thatcher, however, scoff at the notion of multinational union as rank Utopianism, a dangerous deviation from the natural human condition of group homogeneity and ethnic sovereignty...
...country with more then 37,000 miles of borders to defend. But Lopatin has already begun to attract followers. The young officer's feisty attacks in parliament on the generals have become so popular that a joke is going around Moscow about him. Question: "What's the highest rank in the army?" Answer: "People's Deputy...
...received $10 billion to $20 billion in loans from them for its war effort. But now that the cease-fire with Iran is two years old, Iraq is rebuilding its oil industry. With an output of 3.14 million bbl. a day, Iraq is tied with Iran for the rank of OPEC's second largest producer. Both trail Saudi Arabia's output of 5.42 million...
Koppelman predicts that by the end of the decade SBK will rank with such now established upstart labels as A&M and Geffen. With their sizzling track record, the two partners expect the company to grow rapidly, even in the face of a sluggish economy. "When people feel good they buy records," says Bandier. "When they are sad they do the same thing...
Last year for the first time the summer box-office revenue topped $2 billion. The surge was led by Batman, which cost $50 million to produce but brought in $251 million at the domestic wickets to rank as the fourth all-time movie hit. Not far behind -- at $197 million, ninth on the all-time list -- was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a gilt-edged sequel. These successes seemed to validate the rules that Hollywood likes to play by: bet big to win big; and if it worked before, do it again...