Word: ranks
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Despite growing support for some randomization and the departure of Heimert, Kiely maintains his support for ordered choice, under which students could rank their house preferences...
...make a trade-off, represented by an oblique line that angles up between the x and y coordinates. Someone who opts for traditional social bonds loses opportunities, but someone who chooses total freedom risks losing the social ties that give his life meaning. The U.S. and other developed countries rank high on options and opportunity, low on social bonds. Traditional societies like Africa's usually rated strong on bonding, are low on options and opportunities. "We have visions of reality that are different," says Serageldin. Therein lies the problem. "Bonding, imposed on a modern, institutional structure, becomes nepotism" -- a universal...
...trumpeted during the Houston convention -- would provide government aid to middle-income and poor families who want to send children to private schools, including church institutions. Clinton's program is limited to public schools. Quayle and Robertson charged last week that Clinton is beholden to the teachers' unions, which rank high in conservative demonology because they ostensibly peddle "humanism" in classrooms...
Clinton, for his part, turned down an invitation to the Dallas meeting. Having promised to appoint pro-choice jurists and to extend civil rights protection to homosexuals, he knows he cannot expect to pass the religious right's moral checkup. Still, Clinton hopes to recapture a respectable number of rank-and-file evangelicals, some of whom are more moderate than their leaders. Baptist Press, a news service for the Southern Baptist Convention's newspapers, last month distributed a long story describing the Clintons' and Gores' religious practices. While the candidates did not come across as quite the Sunday school teacher...
...people of Oregon. Blessed with a long history of social-policy experimentation, they attacked the problem with almost heartbreaking earnestness. Beginning in 1983, they assembled doctors, businessmen and labor leaders for marathon discussions about how to distribute the state's limited resources. They built elaborate computer models to help rank medical procedures by cost effectiveness. They held 47 town meetings to thrash out the rules by which medical priorities would be set, and then followed up with a random telephone survey of 1,000 households to make sure citizens agreed with the resulting proposal. Finally, they submitted for Washington...