Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What finally brought the quarrel to a head was the government's latest pay proposal for health service doctors below consultant rank, most of whom are full-time employees of the state. Holding to the Labor government's current ceiling on wages-no raises of more than $12 a week-Castle proposed a formula that reduced the physicians' basic work week to 44 hours but at the same time altered the overtime policy so that the doctors who worked the longest hours received the lowest proportional pay. Negotiators for the junior doctors reluctantly accepted the offer...
...elegant compromise between majority rule and minority representation, works like this: Cambridge voters will find in the booths on November 4 two long ballots listing the names of all candidates for city council and school committee. Instead of making the traditional "X," voters will be asked to rank the candidates (1,2,3,etc.) according to their preference...
Starks rates right up there with Gary Fencik of Yale and Tom Fleming of Dartmouth as one of the tops in the Ivy League. Last season Starks caught 47 passes for 619 yards to rank fifth in the nation...
Decked out in his field marshal's regalia, Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada last week made what must rank as one of the most bizarre debuts ever seen and heard in the United Nations General Assembly. In a prepared address, read by his U.N. delegate, Amin charged that the U.S. had been "colonized by Zionists" and called for "the extinction of Israel as a state." At one point or another, Amin scourged the British (for the "terrible situation" in Ulster), the CIA ("a murder squad") and American blacks (they are responsible for their own "perpetual subjugation"). What...
...women could not, "this single factor may have been sufficient to have caused the creation of a male ideology of rape. When men discovered that they could rape, they proceeded to do it . . . Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone...