Word: ranks
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Harvard only offers tenure to Faculty members at the rank of full professor, and most new tenured professors come from other universities where they have already achieved a reputation for scholarship and achievement...
...less than self-effacing subject of Trump:The Art of the Deal to the tune of some $100 million. Trump Hotels stock dropped 30% over the following weeks. More bad news rolled in when a reported $600 million deal to sell half of the Castle to the London-based Rank Organization and transform it into a Hard Rock casino crapped out after a long negotiation...
...team--a competent, bland bunch of centrists--don't want to stake the success of the second term on perilous negotiations with Congress. The lesson of the still unfolding Gingrich scandal, White House aides say, is how much control members of the G.O.P. leadership still exert over the rank and file. In an intensely partisan atmosphere, collecting votes from G.O.P. moderates is going to be tough for Clinton. So he is choosing to forge ahead with the strategy that worked so well for him last year. Its essence: avoid grand legislative schemes and bypass Congress altogether in favor...
...Hitler's Willing Executioners (Knopf). In the year's most talked about book, Harvard historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the Holocaust should be blamed not just on the Nazi faithful but also on ordinary Germans. His evidence of widespread cruelty toward Jews by rank-and-file German soldiers seems irrefutable; his explanation for it has produced brisk debate on the source of human inhumanity...
Turner issued a challenge: rank the biggest givers instead of the biggest getters. Last week Microsoft's online magazine Slate took him up, launching the Slate 60, a list of the largest charitable donations in the country by families or individuals gathered from publicly available sources. These are numbers, and deeds, well worth highlighting. Last year Americans gave a record $143.9 billion to charity, with more than 70% of households contributing. The richest one-half of one percent of households were responsible for 11% of all giving...