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Next to each of the names on the ballot is a blank box, in which voters must pencil a ranking. ("Do Not Use X Marks," the ballot warns.) Instead, pick your favorite candidate and mark him down as number one. The second-best person for the job should get your number two, and so on, all the way up until 23. Many people give up after eight or nine names because votes are unlikely to be meaningful after that point. "People do all kinds of crazy things--they mark X's, they cross out names, they write slogans...
ATLANTA vs. TORONTO: The Maple Leafs upset the Islanders in a dramatic seven-game quarterfinal matchup last year, and possess Mike Palmateer, in Bruin mentor Don Cherry's opinion the best goalie in the league. Salming, Turnbull and Burrows compose the second-best trio of defensemen in the NHL. The late-season acquisition of Paul Gardner should add punch to an attack that relies almost exclusively upon Sittler and MacDonald...
Council members argued that often the group tutorial is, in fact, a preferable format to the "one-to-one, faculty-student ratio" which Bowersock's report cited as the 'ideal goal" of his reforms. In particular, council members objected to the report's implication that group tutorials only rate "second-best...
Granted that initial handicap, Vincent Price as a second-best Wilde is witty, debonairly outrageous and occasionally moving. The format of his one-man show is somewhat constricting and deliberately artificial. John Gay, who devised the evening, has conceived it as a lecture delivered in Paris in 1899, a year before Wilde's death, and some time after he had been released from his two-year prison term in Reading Gaol...
Without Evidence. But Chrysler grumped that Adams' decision would "force the American people to pay triple the cost for a second-best safety system." It charged that Adams "ignored his own agency's data, which show that present seat belts will save 50% more lives than air bags"-assuming, of course, that seat belts are consistently used. American Motors said the ruling was made "without clear evidence of [the bags'] lifesaving effectiveness over present belt systems [and] is a multi-billion-dollar gamble with consumers' money...