Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal with a new sex scandal. This time, as reported in the Washington Post, a chief petty officer was charged with drunkenly groping a young female colleague during a commercial-airline flight. An additional 20 or so sailors were also on board--including a Navy chaplain with the rank of lieutenant commander--who apparently did nothing to intervene, despite the woman's screams. Further unwelcome news for Navy brass: some two dozen midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy are under investigation for alleged marijuana...
...Coaches rank recruits in terms of their potential value to the program, but the admissions office has the final...
...regal and controlling, but rather slimy and pretentious. When he commands Hamlet to "be as us in Denmark," White is less like a cool, calculating usurper and more like a glib James Spader. He's irreverent and funny, but the eloquence of his "o, my offence is rank" speech is undercut by the flippancy of the rest of his portrayal...
...academic index breaks down athletes' standardized test scores and high school class ranks to assure they are above a minimum standard. Each applicant is rated in three categories. SAT I, SAT II (formerly achievement tests) and class rank...
...same procedure is applied to the average of applicant's three best SAT II scores and their class rank, which is approximated onto a scale of 1 to 80. The three resulting scores are added together to create an applicant's index...