Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...application system was eliminatedand students were asked to rank all 12 houses...
Matt Howitt '97, an economics concentrator, is a Crimson sports editor. He has worked as a quality assurance engineer for a computer networking company the past four summers. Despite his sarcasm, he is looking forward to being one of Bill's rank-and-file this summer. Occasionally, he is actually funny...
Police believe the shooter was a professional. He had studied Kunimatsu's movements and chosen his time carefully. But it was the assailant's marksmanship that most clearly separated his act from that of a rank amateur. At a distance of more than 65 ft., he fired four times and did not miss once, putting bullets through Kunimatsu's leg, chest and abdomen even as the police chief crumpled to the ground. Then the gunman hopped on a bicycle and disappeared...
Voting on four different versions of a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, the House of Representatives failed to pass a single one. The spectacular defeat marked the House's first rejection of a key G.O.P. bill, with the usually disciplined Republican rank and file splitting, largely along generational lines. The proposal received little Democratic support...
...sacred $500-per-child tax credit, claiming the give-away was too generous to upper-income taxpayers. Stories detailing Republican "disarray" were beginning to appear in newspapers, and as Luntz dashed to yet another strategy session with his G.O.P. employers, he admitted that there was talk among the G.O.P. rank and file about "caving" on tax cuts. "Republicans are spooked," Luntz said later, though he argued that it was only temporary. "It's strange for a pollster to say, but there's too much focus on the polls...