Word: rankness
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...having movies to go to, music to listen to or television to watch doesn't exactly rank with famine or pestilence as a besetting syndrome, but it is indicative of the larger phenomenon. You know you're fading when even advertisers of new products don't try to reach you anymore because they no longer care what boomers want, or think or spend their money on (unless it is a solution to pesky erectile dysfunction or your annoying estrogen shortage). Says Cathy DeThorne, executive vice president of the advertising giant Leo Burnett U.S.A.: "Whining baby boomers are mourning the fact...
...froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn't completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absentmindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately retrieved them just before my highly sensitive aquarium fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish...
From 1977 to 1989, students were assigned to Houses through the ordered choice system, in which students could rank their four top House choices. But in 1989, the housing system changed from ordered choice to non-ordered choice, in which students could list four choices but not rank them...
Born 63 years ago in the southern town of Bo, the ambitious Sankoh was too poor to attend secondary school and instead joined the army, then run by Britain, Sierra Leone's colonial master till 1961. However, he reached only the rank of corporal and was assigned to radio duty. He was further embittered by serving as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a civil war that saw the assassination of that country's leader, Patrice Lumumba, whom Sankoh admired. After a brief and unhappy stint as a cameraman in Britain, Sankoh supported...
...invasion of white-owned farms, would this solve Zimbabwe's problems? Absolutely not. Government corruption, incompetence, high unemployment and inflation, and Mugabe's fanatical intolerance of any form of opposition would still remain. In reality, white farmers and their lands fire up emotions, but this issue does not rank among Zimbabwe's top 10 difficulties. The agricultural sector has been one of the country's few shining lights. Zimbabweans know the only solution is to get rid of their single biggest problem--President Mugabe. GAVIN MURRAY Tonbridge, England...