Word: rankness
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...flip-flop is human. Oh, sure, it can still sometimes be a political liability, evidence of a flaky disposition or rank opportunism. But there are circumstances in which not to reverse course seems almost pathological. He's a model of consistency, Stephen Colbert said last year of George W. Bush: "He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday--no matter what happened on Tuesday...
...Many on the team, like Rhodes, remember playing with Shields. Her impact on the Crimson squad ran deep, as she started in goal all four years. She recorded 18 career shutouts—capped off by a record setting 11 shutouts in her senior season. Her 4145 minutes played rank second in Harvard women’s soccer, while her 272 career saves rank third, and .863 save percentage ranks fifth. In her final year at Harvard, she put up a .908 save percentage, third-best in all of NCAA Division 1 women’s soccer. In addition...
...long tail of what we type into that empty search box, Internet users ask about fears. Measuring what we're truly afraid of is as simple as amassing all of the searches in a given week or month for the phrase "fear of." By doing so, we can rank our most common phobias...
...Woolmer, who died only hours after his team lost to rank outsiders Ireland in a match that effectively eliminated Pakistan from the competition, had been working on a book that some Pakistani and Indian commentators have speculated would expose match-fixing within the team - a notion that Woolmer's co-author says is nonsense...
...prevented Gaydamak from establishing high-level business and political contacts inside Israel and endearing himself to the Israeli public. Where the government stumbled, he acted and now looks like a champion of the people compared to the current leaders. Gaydamak may or may not assume a political role or rank, but, largely thanks to an unpopular prime minister and those around him, he might just determine who gets to run Israel...