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Brady wrote that she had "experienced sexism at its rankest, lies about my personal life and a level of calculated mischief that is simply appalling".

"However, over the past few weeks for the first time in my life I am experiencing sexism at its rankest, lies about my personal life and a level of calculated mischief that is simply appalling.

Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics, said that if he was in charge of the Tigers, "I would call the team together and tell them that they were the rankest quitters in the country." (62) The Los Angeles Times argued that the temperamental Cobb compared unfavorably with gentle Honus Wagner.

(111) Chief Judge Brown used the term to describe the defense's theory: as long as the explicit criterion is not simply sex (for example, a policy that no women may be hired), but sex and an additional job requirement, the discrimination may be lawful based upon the second unprotected criterion, thus making it unnecessary to prove a "business justification." (112) The dissent points out the absurdity of this theory, noting that by adding nonsex factors that exclude many women, the "rankest sort" of discrimination would be sanctioned.

What seems most puzzling now is why for Carpenter all of these various lifestyle radicalisms--which in the twentieth century have proved eminently compatible with the rankest individualism--were so intimately tied up with socialism.

It would be safe to say that every one of them, except for the rankest probie just out of the academy, had handled at least one dead body.

The nature of the abuse varied from poor judgment and management to fraud and corruption of the rankest sort." (37) Similar criticisms made in Ohio could also be said of Michigan--that the disposal of public land in the state was "probably the worst example in the United States of sustained governmental failure either to develop a coherent public policy or to build an administrative structure capable of withstanding pressure from special interests." (38)

Prospero forgives him, too, but qualifies the terms of his mercy: For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive Thy rankest fault--all of them; and require My dukedom of thee, which perforce I know Thou must restore.

It is a regular old Copperhead Democratic ticket, of the rankest kind--probably pleases the old democratic bummers around New York and Brooklyn--but every where else they take it like a bad dose of medicine" (Corr, 2:36).

Their panel of experts judged her rendition of AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long to be the rankest of all rip-offs.

All of this is the rankest sort of partisan Beltway gamesmanship, all the worse because it is rooted in racial politics.

It is the rankest example of Whitehall London-bias you will ever see and the tragic news is that there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

Is it not also the truth that anyone who, like Massoud (or Osama bin Laden, for that matter), came out of an honor culture would regard such a sorry record of non-response towards one affront after another to America's national honor as the rankest sort of cowardice?

It could be argued--doubtless will be argued--that the "concessions" from the Orthodox are not really concessions, because tradition and law allow for them, whereas the Reform "concessions" are, as already noted, concessions of the rankest order and deeply insulting.