Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets as much as in the amphitheater, the Democrats decided that more people should be drawn into the nominating process. State party organizations were given a choice: either take the caucuses that select convention 'delegates out of the smoke-filled back rooms and open them to the rank and file party members, or hold a primary...
...with. One measure of its wealth is its endowment fund, which includes a portfolio of stocks and bonds managed by Morgan Guaranty Trust, and is estimated to be worth at least $200 million. Compared with the endowments of universities, Father Flanagan's Boys Home Foundation Fund would rank No. 8, behind Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell. Boys Town has about $286,000 in endowment for each boy; the university with the highest endowment/student ratio is Cal Tech, at a mere...
While Pacino's character is the most important of the Godfather's four sons, he remains part of a balanced quartet. In the roles of the other sons-all crucial in varying ways-the movie brings three more actors into the front rank...
...have a good impact on surrounding communities, providing scholarships to underprivileged students, paying high wages to employees who have relatively low lifetime earnings potential, supporting certain kinds of research, and directing its investments into socially progressive industries. In my opinion, improving the financial position of most graduate students, who rank in the top 2 per cent of the country in social class, race, education, IQ, and the other determinants of earnings potential, is a low priority item. The Teaching Fellows Union should formulate demands that take into account some such sense of priorities. James W. Wetzler Teaching Fellow in Economics
...hospitalized with a painful spinal problem in 1969, Bingham had complained to his wife about their problem of trying to make ends meet on his modest annual salary of about $5,000. She suggested that they "go to the Russians." Whereupon he wrote out a note stating his name, rank and naval assignment as an antisubmarine warfare and torpedo specialist at the British naval base in Portsmouth, and Maureen delivered it to the Russian embassy in London. After he left the hospital, the Soviets invited him to London for a meeting. Over vodka, they gave...