Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ames' activities when he was the spy's boss in 1989. Woolsey had ordered that none of those reprimanded in the Ames case be given promotions, raises or commendations. Last week he demoted the officers who violated that order; both men then retired rather than accept a lower rank...
Having attained the rank of life master--a designation held by about a quarter of the American Contract Bridge League's 180,000 members--be won an important intercollegiate bridge title in 1990 (graduate students are eligible for intercollegiate competitions). In 1991, Cole published a 144-page books Fishheads, in which he described, among other things, the Fishhead Coup...
While Harvard College was recently named the best university in America for the fifth year in a row, the Harvard Business School (HBS) has sunk to its lowest rank ever: fifth...
...ninth- graders graduate four years later; 95% of fourth-graders need remedial help. Acting superintendent Eddie Davis, whose two children attend Hartford schools, is blunt about the crisis. "Our performance is down, our costs are up," he says. "Our 2,000-odd teachers make on average $52,000 and rank in the top five in the state in terms of salaries. Yet we rank 112th out of 169 towns in terms of direct expenditures on instructional materials...
...Kirk Varnedoe, it is a handsome affair with a cogent, detailed catalog introduction. Neither show nor catalog exactly inflates its subject, and yet one may not be quite convinced that Twombly, despite the past slights inflicted on his reputation in America, is the powerful artist of the first rank that moma would like...