Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nationally, only nine per cent of women faculty members are professors, while 25 per cent of men hold that rank. Thirty five per cent of women are instructors, the lowest rung on the academic ladder, while only 16 per cent of the men hold this rank...
...meet last year's admission standards for a four-year college: a minimum grade average of 82% at one of New York's better high schools. Under the new system, students may enter CUNY's nine senior colleges with an average of 80% or a rank in the top half of their class at any high school. Since low scores on reading and math tests are not held against them, the net effect is a deliberate break for those who went to poor high schools. Significantly, 50% of the students who have been admitted only...
...interrogated more than 200 witnesses, and had decided to drop all charges because Defregger acted under duress. In an apparent tradeoff, Julius Cardinal Döpfner announced the next day that he would accept Defregger's resignation as leader of the diocese. Defregger will retain the rank of bishop and handle administrative tasks regarding religious orders. Meanwhile an investigation continues in the village of Filetto di Camarda, where the executions took place...
John R. Bunting, president of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co., says that he wears "the longest hair and widest ties of any banker I know." That is only one reason why he often discomforts conventional colleagues, many of whom rank him second only to Wright Patman, the congressional curmudgeon, as the man they like to dislike. Bunting, a 45-year-old Presbyterian, has publicly castigated other bankers for discriminating against Jews, and has talked of adding youths under 25, consumer crusaders and even militant feminists to First Pennsylvania's board. He has also introduced "Earth Bonds...
...publishers and editors resist criticizing themselves in public, but rank-and-file newsmen are more than ready to do it for them. Since 1968, when the Chicago Journalism Review was begun by a group of local journalists, at least ten similar watchdog publications have been launched or are in planning stages across the country. The latest to appear is The Unsatisfied Man, put out by 55 newsmen in Colorado...