Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaillard after 5½ months in office. But the Algerian problem could long ago have been resolved were it not for the unreconstructed imperialist who skulks within the breast of so many Frenchmen. Cynical about government, about grandeur and glory, Frenchmen nonetheless are vulnerable to exhortations that France must rank high among the nations and be respected. ("Respect?" wrote one wag in Paris' Canard Enchaineé last week. "I don't want to respect France. I only want to sleep with...
...some cases, small nations have a real need for an international line, or fly so efficiently that they can compete on even terms with bigger nations. The Netherlands' 38-year-old K.L.M. and Belgium's Sabena, both with far-flung routes and big, modern fleets, rank among the world's finest airlines, earn valuable foreign exchange and promote much tourism for their mother nations. Flying to the U.S. and South America, Japan Air Lines serves a booming nation of 90 million people, not only generates most of its own international traffic but has such an effective domestic...
...welcome all qualified undergraduates," state the chairmen of three large departments--English, History, and Government. These departments have no set policy for admitting undergraduates into "200" courses; the various instructors are free to decide. Qualification depends--in theory--on Rank List standing and prerequisites; in practice these are often a joke...
Retreat to the Queen. Mills, in his first important test since he became Ways & Means boss last January, reckoned without another House chairman with rank as imperial and voice as loud. When the Democratic version reached the Rules Committee for processing, Virginia's cautious, wily Howard Smith took one look and decided he didn't like it. Too many votes were stacked against him for Rules Chairman Smith to pigeonhole the measure alongside other pieces of legislation that have displeased him in the past. But the bill, when the Rules Committee voted it out for consideration last week...
...original CEP proposal recommended that 30 per cent of tutorial work in each department be given by members of the Faculty with the minimum rank of assistant professor. The Faculty adopted the 30 per cent figure only "as a target," but also agreed that "each officer of instruction is expected to take part in his department's tutorial program...