Word: topflight
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...unusually candid annual report, John W. Nason, president of Carleton College, discusses the long-term side effects of the "teachers' market," the shortage of topflight faculty that has increasingly bedeviled his excellent liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn., as well as other colleges and universities throughout...
...Yanks needed to do now was split the last two singles, and the champagne would flow again. Win or lose, it had been a wonderful weekend of topflight tennis...
...Britain's Prince of Wales Cup for international-class 14-ft. dinghy racing. But when Owner Tony Boyden asked him to take the helm of his America's Cup challenger Sovereign this spring, Scott complained that he was "out of practice." He had not sailed in topflight competition since 1956. On the other hand, that just might be a blessing. "Sailing a 12-meter is jolly well different than sailing a dinghy," he said. "So I'd have to start from scratch, anyway...
...some ronin have been trying to get into that school for as much as eight years. Michio Nagai, a former visiting professor at Columbia who teaches sociology at Tokyo's Institute of Technology, proposes a law limiting the percentage of graduates that a company can hire from topflight Tokyo or Kyoto universities. He also suggests a nationwide system of entrance exams, like the U.S. College Boards, which would rank students by ability so that the less qualified would accept admission at less-than-Ivy schools, thus giving every roaming ronin a home...
...church's general prohibition against priests with wives. Most American bishops oppose the idea of married priests, and the Vatican has made it clear that none are likely to serve in the U.S. soon. But last week Cardinal Cushing indicated that "we should accept at least topflight men," predicted that a change in the church's attitude "will come in the future...