Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lebanon, Levy switched to a hard line when Shamir proposed a peace plan last year, and as Housing Minister he secretly subsidized the Jewish settlement in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem's Old City last April. Levy has never hidden his desire to become Prime Minister, though polls rank him near the bottom of lists of ; leading candidates. His new job could change that perception -- or cement...
...film Field of Dreams, embodies the sentiment that inspired Stein and MCA to develop 444 acres of snake-infested swamp into the largest U.S. moviemaking complex outside Hollywood and a handsome leisure world nearly twice the size of rival Disney-MGM Studios. With a partner, Britain's Rank Organization, and $640 million worth of muscle and imagination, MCA was ready to pose a serious challenge to Disney, on its own terms, for the hearts, minds and discretionary income of the 13 million tourists who visit Central Florida each year...
...comics' barbs at minorities are just as rank and rankling. But there is nothing novel about immigrant baiting in America. It flourished a century ago -- when humor directed at Irish, Italian, Polish and Jewish newcomers was a music-hall staple -- and continued unabated in Hollywood's racially derisive treatment of blacks. The reason then was the same as it is today: people felt threatened by the outsiders and so made fun of them. In the new version, a raunch artist taps into the grudge a white working-class male may hold against the beneficiaries of affirmative action and liberal sympathy...
MONSIEUR HIRE. In rank solitude, a strange man (Michel Blanc) watches a pretty woman (Sandrine Bonnaire), and someone has murder in mind. From the Georges Simenon novel, French filmmaker Patrice Leconte spins a handsome web of obsession, betrayal and death. Blanc is spookily splendid as the pathetic voyeur...
...strongly committed core of teachers and administrators, the school's vital indicators are startlingly bleak. The yearly 20% dropout rate is more than double the California average, and a quarter of the student body is absent on any given day. In reading and math, San Fernando seniors rank in the bottom 5% statewide...