"Over this great run with great players (a No. 1 national ranking and a 30-win season) are things that we have not been able to accomplish, " Few said.
The region also has the fastest GDP growth over the last decade, with its national ranking rising from 24th in 2000 to 15th in 2009, the biggest improvement in China.
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In our national ranking of 200 metropolitan regions for employer attractiveness, the four-county Syracuse region ranks in the bottom quintile. (See "map") Some of the factors indirectly affecting this ranking are beyond any city's control--such as climate and transportation grids--but one very big one is very much the province of politicians: taxes.
The consolation prize went to Stenson, who figured he would need to finish in the top 10 to crack the top 50 in the world in the final week that Augusta National uses the world ranking to fill out the field.
Al-Mawla, a Shiite Muslim, was a senior officer in Saddam Hussein's army and is now a high-ranking member of Iraq's national reconciliation committee.
He went on to hold high-ranking posts at the FBI and the National Security Council before returning to head the CIA in 1991 under President George H.
The Roundtable featured brief presentations concerning the findings of a blue-ribbon studyU.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of the Benefits and Costs, the study was signed by eleven high-ranking, former U.S. national security officials -- including five retired four-star general officers, three of whom served as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Universitas 21, an international group of universities, claimed the new ranking was the first to compare the effectiveness of national higher education systems.
Along with maintaining a top ten ranking, I was a member of three different National Honors Societies (officer of one), played on both the Academic Decathlon and Mock Trial teams, and wrote for the school newspaper and the special teen section of the local daily, The El Paso Times.
It is more than 40% higher than the mark set last June by a system called Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that previously stood at No. 1 on a twice-yearly ranking of the 500 fastest supercomputers.
Golson helped the Irish go 12-0 during the regular season last year, regain the No. 1 ranking for the first time in nearly two decades and get to the national title game against Alabama in January.
The 2012 Bicycle Friendly States ranking was prepared by the League of American Bicyclists, and released in honor of National Bike Month, which occurs each May.
And they have a high-ranking official, the head of the CIA, in many cases, or the head of the National Security Agency, sign a stipulation that says state secrets are at risk.
Thanks to a ranking system that keeps fans engaged all year, the cost of losing is potentially one that includes the national championship.
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You might imagine that it would be easier to call for a return to military strength and national greatness in the United States -- a superpower -- than in the United Kingdom -- a middle ranking power.
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