Hong Kong installed a currency board in 1983 and has retained its rank as one of the most competitive economies in the world.
We used to rank number one in the number of college graduates and advanced degrees.
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This one surprised me: innovation rank in 2011 for Brazil was 44.
Ruff's 571 wins rank second in the NHL with one team, trailing only Al Arbour, who had 740 wins with the New York Islanders.
Corporate communication used to travel in only one direction: from the CEO down to the rank-and-file.
Google doesn't charge for any of these services, and few of them rank number one or two or even three in their categories, but they expand Google's inventory of advertising space.
That surely will rank as one of the most important moments in the history of government-business relations -- yet, in a sign of the times, it is almost a footnote to all the other giant events of the period.
Today (July 14), Peabody announced a deal with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to develop a 50 million ton per year surface mine a giant project that would rank as one of the biggest coal mines in the world.
In one egregious howler he promotes the socialist firebrand Nye Bevan to the rank of prime minister of Great Britain.
Indeed, the decay of Congo's Belgian-built roads, which in 1960 ran to over 100, 000km, must rank as one of the greatest boons to forests since the Black Death.
They were searching for correlations between social rank and gene activity, and in 987 genes they found one.
Not only does SAS have an enviably low turnover rate, but surveys consistently rank it as one of the best places to work in corporate America.
And where we used to be ranked number one, for example, in the proportion of college graduates, we now rank number 12.
One assessment shows American 15-year-olds now rank 21st in science and 25th in math when compared to their peers around the world.
Gathering what data are available outside the U.S. has fallen in recent years to our reporter Susan Kitchens, who must therefore rank as one of the better authorities on the subject.
Carlos Slim and his company America Movil recently bought stakes in one Spanish and two Mexican soccer teams, but none of the three franchises rank nearly high enough on any valuation list.
For example, during my tenure, three African-American men, four Hispanic men, one African-American woman, and one White woman were appointed as Assistant Directors -- the second highest rank in the career FBI.
The databases can--in a single day--test one disease-causing protein against a trillion chemical compounds and rank which ones are most likely to latch onto the protein and gum up its works.
Mr. Anderson, who worked at the retailer for 36 years since its early days as a stereo chain called Sound of Music, said Mr. Dunn's appointment as CEO in 2009 had been very popular with rank-and-file workers, who saw him as one of their own.
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He is the sort of man who, when in Paris for the Air Show, eschews the obvious top hotels for a more discreet one in a backstreet near the Arc de Triomphe the kind of place with no taxi rank, but a sprinkling of Bentleys and Ferraris parked at the front.
But it's been one of those things that's been subject to a lot of, in some cases, pretty rank politics.
Rank the remaining tasks by order of importance, and assign all but the top one in each column to your team members.
But that is an exception: in a nation where many like history and beauty but few are formally religious, cathedrals must rank as one of the church's success stories.
Is that one of the reasons he is reaching out to some more rank-and-file Republican members in search of a compromise on fiscal issues?
For those in search of spirits that live on through the folklore they inspire, the Seamen's Bethel must rank as one of Massachusetts' most haunted locations.
In a pep-talk to about 70 staffers, "he said, 'We're in a battle for the future of the country, '" said one staffer, who described the party's rank-and-file as "fired up" at the sight of the former president.
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