Word: ranking
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...Among chimpanzees," Wrangham explains, "every female of whatever rank is subordinate to every male of whatever rank. Among bonobos males dominate only the females that rank lower than them, and females just as easily dominate lower-ranking males...
According to Tracy Kiley of the Princeton Review, many schools use a formula of LSAT scores and grades, called an index, to rank applicants, with the test often counting for up to 60 percent of the index...
...most uncertain whether that will really give him much traction. "Cataclysmic" is how a Dole adviser describes the effect of a government survey purporting to show that teenage drug use doubled from 1992 to 1995. But polls of voters taken even after that widely publicized finding still rank drugs roughly fifth among the issues that most concern the electorate (the economy is No. 1). One reason may be that people do not see among their own children and the children's classmates quite as great a surge in drug use as the survey points to. Changes...
...fact, it is unlikely that had an impact on the shift in rankings. According to "Best Colleges" supplement editor Mel Elfin, himself the recipient of a master's degree here, Harvard's drop can be attributed to a change in the criteria, rather than a decline in the quality of a Harvard education. For the first time, the percentage of classes with 50 or more students was included as part of the equation used to rank the schools. At 21 percent, Harvard more than doubles Yale's nine percent. It isn't until 31st-ranked UCLA, with 29 percent, that...
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