The State of the Air report also ranked the Los Angeles-Long Beach- Riverside area as having the third-highest level of annual particle pollution in the nation and the fourth-highest level of short-term particle pollution.
New York has been on "orange" alert, or the second-highest level -- indicating a high risk of terror attack -- since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Tendulkar has broken every major batting record in the sport, being cricket's highest run scorer in Tests and one-day internationals and the scorer of the most hundreds at the highest level --- now 29 ahead of his closest rival, Australia's Ricky Ponting.
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That leaves it just short of the FTSE's all-time highest finish - the level of 6, 930 reached in December 1999.
Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi are the highest-level Wall Street executives to be charged in connection with the mortgage crisis so far.
The secretary's visit marks the highest-level interaction between the sides since former defense secretary Leon Penetta's brief trip to Beijing in September.
When an unexpected crisis occurs, we get caught off guard and are forced to react rather than respond with our highest-level thinking.
In 1990, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker met Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach in the highest-level contact between the former enemies since the Vietnam war.
On the other hand, this case has the highest-level attention.
He's the highest-level figure to cooperate with the authorities.
And just before that, state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, a white New York City Democrat, was forced from office in 2007 and imprisoned in one of the highest-level corruption cases in New York history.
The meeting, held on July 31st in the margins of a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Brunei, marked much the highest-level contact between the two countries since the election of President George Bush.
The country's unemployment rate stands at 26% -- its highest level ever -- and the situation is even worse for young people, with more than 55% of 16- to 24-year-olds out of work.
Yields on 10-year Spanish government bonds climbed to the highest level of the year, while Italian 10-year yields rose to the highest level since February.
By mid-2012, Italy had the second-highest level of public debt - a towering 123% of GDP (annual economic output) - in the eurozone.
The figures also revealed that Scotland's population increased for the fifth year running and has now reached 5.14m - its highest level since 1983 - largely due to migration.
The nation's civilian "high" alert -- the second highest level of warning -- was put in place Tuesday.
"Orange" is the second-highest level in the nation's five-tiered, color-coded threat alert system.
It boasts the industry's highest density as well as the highest performance level of 400 megabits-per-second (mbps) data transfer rate based on the toggle DDR 2.0 interface.
The highest heatwave level - Level 4 - is classed as "red emergency".
He clearly still has the ability to perform at the highest level - but he will have to crack his qualifying problems if he is to convince potential employers of that.
The push to add to net-longs drove platinum speculative long positions to their highest level since mid-June, Barclays said.
Single-family housing starts hit their highest level since the first-time homebuyer tax credit sparked residential real estate demand back in April 2010, helping housing starts hit an annualized 750, 000 in August.
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The current terror threat level has been classed severe - one level lower than the highest "critical" - since 14 August 2006.
Even with the decline, the Dow remains at its second-highest level in history, not counting inflation.
The government raised the security alert in railway stations and airports to red, the second-highest level.
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New-home sales posted the biggest monthly jump in nearly two decades last month, reaching the highest level since mid-2008.
And sales of previously occupied homes rose to the second-highest level in three years, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.
Global fabrication demand slipped in 2011 by 1.5% to 876.6 million ounces, or 27, 265 metric tons, although the total was the second-highest level since 2000, the report said.
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