Word: ranking
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However, even worse is the not unusual result that many groups will be disappointed by the outcomes of the lottery despite all their long discussions, careful planning and tactful handling of each member's personal interests. On the lottery form you don't rank your picks in the order of interest, which means all four of them are equally important. Suppose Group A is seriously eager to go to Lowell, and Group B doesn't really care and just happens to randomly pick it. It will be unfair for A if the selections of A and B are weighted...
...House. "The Senate as a body was designed to slow things down. I hear that all the time," the young conservative grumbles. "Fine. Deliberate-but act!" Santorum and Florida Republican Connie Mack forced a party caucus last week to consider stripping Appropriations chairman Mark Hatfield of his rank for having refused to cast the vote that could have passed the balanced-budget amendment. All they got for their effort was a promise to study ways of improving party discipline in the future...
...California's woes were nothing to make fun of. The state was still dazed by natural calamities and demoralized by an eco-nomic slump. Since last summer, though, the surfing state has been riding a wave of sustained recovery. And the buoyancy has helped carry Wilson into the front rank of potential contenders for the Republican ticket. Finally he has something to sing about. Says political consultant Joseph Cerell, a Democrat: "Wilson pulled off the biggest upset of the '94 election because Kathleen Brown was considered a slam-dunk winner, and that comeback-of-the-year award has raised...
...does answering "always true" really mean that one has high self-esteem, or does answering "rarely true" puts one at dangerous levels of depression? I find this hard to believe. Just as most of us recognize that extreme cockiness is a form of insecurity, I am tempted to rank most of those who answer "always true" as self-delusionary egotists, rather than students with healthy self-esteem levels...
...delighted when I found out. It's the first time education schools have been ranked [by U.S. News], and it's nice to be recognized as having the best faculty and the best students in the country," said Dean of the School of Education Jerome T. Murphy. "However, I also think it's very hard to rank schools like this in perfect order...