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Ehrenberg noted, however, that fluctuations in the U.S.News rankings are mainly the result of changes in the formula the magazine uses to calculate rank from year to year...
...estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement," fretted Illinois representative Ray LaHood. Added Indiana representative Mark Souder, "If the impression comes out that we're into Social Security but not admitting it, that's almost worse than [spending the money...
...this routine, but I do. From the day the course book arrives at my doorstep (or doesn't, in the case of this year, so I read it on the Web), I read it cover to cover, pen in hand, marking a complex pattern of courses and their relative rank in my mind. I create a database which I sort by semester, exam group, Core, concentration or elective credit, of literally hundreds of courses. I boil down to a final list that numbers in the teens and hit the ground running during shopping period, optimizing the perfect schedule--if often...
...Rank, in a survey of college freshmen, of "losing my virginity" when asked what was the biggest event in their lives...
...Rank of the fall of the Berlin Wall...