Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This month, however, state directors of his U.W.S.A.--hired and paid by the national headquarters in Dallas--began organizing public meetings at the county level, ostensibly to canvass the group's rank and file, as well as anyone else who cares to attend, on whether they think formation of a new party is in the national interest. In spirit, the ploy resembles Perot's 1992 appeal for public guidance on whether to run for President...
...years after the landmark federal study ``A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform'' warned darkly of the ``rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future,'' we remain a nation at risk. We are a nation, that is, whose 13-year-olds have average math skills that rank below those in 14 other developed countries, according to one 1991 study. We are a nation whose college professors complain that before they can teach the classics, they must teach the basics. And while nearly all American adults can read and write at a basic level, according...
...bureaucrats and the conservative older generation. He continues to display an amazing talent for survival, weathering near universal vilification for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, which Deng backed but Li implemented. He also seems to have recovered from a heart attack last year to resume a front- rank position. Yet if Tiananmen is re-evaluated after Deng dies -- as it almost certainly will be -- the blame may fall...
This Gustafson was, perhaps, but 'twas a dodgy call nonetheless that kept Konik chugging up the right wing for a goal which might rank alongside Farrell's from last year in terms of potential future impact...
...wholly estranged from the President, the odds increase that military factions disgruntled with Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis might stage a long- predicted military coup, neatly disguised as a necessary crackdown to prosecute the war. But the army itself is also divided; some officers far higher in rank than Major Victor consider the invasion a piece of bloody foolishness...