Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McVeigh driving the rented truck the day before the bombing, and that three other witnesses thought they saw McVeigh outside the devastated building shortly before the explosion, though none could pick him out conclusively from a lineup. McVeigh, who so far has told federal investigators nothing except his name, rank and serial number, followed the proceedings at the preliminary hearing intently...
...until yesterday, not enough to beat Harvard. Last year, for example, both teams were essentially tied for the No. 6 rank in the country and faced each other in Hanover for the last sport in the six-team NCAA Tournament...
...Respondents rank academic reputation as the most important quality in a law school...
Accounts of what happened then differ, but all start with a bit of bureaucratic farce: while Minh waited inside the palace for someone to surrender to, NVA troops milled around on the grounds waiting for an officer of sufficiently high rank to show up and receive the surrender (according to their regulations, this could be done only by a colonel or general). Colonel Bui Tin says he was the man. He walked into Minh's office around 11:30 and found that Minh had already written out a surrender that he had read over the Saigon radio...
...order to compensate for inequities in local property-tax revenues, the state has poured millions into the Hartford system, which now spends more per student--nearly $9,000--than almost any other district. The money, though, has not begun to make a difference; Hartford's student test scores consistently rank last in the state, and continue to fall. Says Hartford Mayor Michael Peters: "Does it make it a better education just because we get more money than somebody else? We have special needs in urban areas: bilingual education, special education. That's what drives the cost...