Word: ranking
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Breslow, who is a Columbia university professor--the school's highest faculty rank--was chosen to lead the American Chemical Society...
...vain. Doctors, even wealthy ones, rank well above politicians in public esteem. No one gave a hoot about the kittens, or where Frist would find the spending cuts, as long as he wanted to cut. Sasser lost by 212,843 votes...
Harvard is second in the country in terms of the rate of alumni choosing to donate to their schools. For large research universities that traditionally have lower rates of giving, such a rank is exceedingly impressive. What else is school spirit really about? Harvard students may not show their devotion the same way as at other schools, but why should...
Under the city's proportional representation voting system, voters rank nine councillors--who represent the city at large--in order of preference. When a seat is vacated, only those ballots whose voters had ranked that councillor first are recounted, and the candidate with the most votes wins...
...being trounced. The U.S. firms are not only turning back an import invasion of American markets but also triumphing in so-called third-country export markets and even swiping some sales in Japan and other tormentor countries. The closest thing to an official world championship of business is top rank among the nations studied by the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, and last month the forum made the announcement: after eight years of Japanese domination, the U.S. in 1993 had the world's most competitive economy...