Word: ranking
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...accord departmental rank to women's studies, therefore, is inherently a challenge to the University's power centers. It does more than legitimate the fact that studying women is an important and worthwhile scholarly purpose; it would imply that the scholars--most of them women--who have done so much to challenge traditional academic assumptions should actually be allowed control over their own, new field of research...
...would always defend the Azerbaijanis. We tried to see that boys of Slavic extraction, from Russia, the Ukraine or Belorussia, served in Nagorno-Karabakh. Many former soldiers have taken sides, and some of them have served in Afghanistan. Not only enlisted men but also officers who once held the rank of lieutenant colonel are now fighting for the Armenians and Azerbaijanis. These veterans are as experienced as our soldiers...
...will remain so until apartheid is abolished. That may be the most telling impact of the sanctions. Today most whites are eager to end the pain and regain a place among civilized nations. Yet they are also angry and resentful, blaming Americans in particular for what they see as rank hypocrisy. Many insist that the U.S. has lost, not gained, leverage over South African policies...
Antigun opinion steadfastly ignores these realities known to rank-and-file police officers -- men and women who face crime firsthand, not police administrators who face mayors and editors. These law-enforcement professionals tell us that expecting firearm restrictions to act as crime- prevention measures is wishful thinking. They point out that proposed gun laws would not have stopped heinous crimes committed by the likes of John Hinckley Jr., Patrick Purdy, Laurie Dann or mentally disturbed, usually addicted killers. How can such crimes be used as examples of what gun control could prevent...
Much of the responsibility for enforcing the cleanup will fall on Nikolai Vorontsov, who last year became chairman of the State Committee on the Protection of Nature. A noted biologist and environmentalist, Vorontsov, 54, is the first non-Communist ministerial-rank member of the Soviet government since the Bolshevik Revolution. Observes a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Three years ago, I'd never have thought it possible that environmentalists would get this...