Then there's China, which has climbed to the world's number two spot in oil consumption.
Yet Merrill has long moved early to place future chief executives in the number two spot.
It's not really comparable to tickets of the past because we've never had someone like Hillary Clinton in the number two spot.
The number two spot was claimed by the United States with 13 percent, and Russia slid in at third place with 4.7 percent.
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It was later that Cheney blocked Philbin's promotion to the number two spot in the Office of the Solicitor General, which represents the government before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Europe's number one will leapfrog American Phil Mickelson to take the world number two spot next week - with only Tiger Woods standing between himself and the number one spot.
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The Hollywood hype helped put 23-year-old Bebe, once just another obscure retailer, on the national map--and land the number two spot on the FORBES list of 200 Best Small Companies in America this year.
Russia now has 87 billionaires, more than any nation except the U.S. Sixteen years after the Soviet collapse, Russia has handily overtaken Germany, which held the number two spot for six years but hasn't produced many new billion-dollar fortunes of late.
If either team is upset in its final two games, the possibility exists that Notre Dame will jump into at a minimum, the number-two spot.
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Like Jack Welch, the fomer boss of General Electric, Mr Kozlowski claims only to want the number one or two spot.
Sitting pretty as the number three cell maker in the world would make many of the bigger names happy -- not to mention the usurped Sony Ericsson and Motorola a bit green -- but not LG, as it's now gunning for spot number two.
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Henman has tumbled to 28th, with British number two Greg Rusedski just a spot behind in 29th.
Williams' Nico Rosberg claimed fifth spot with Ferrari number two Felipe Massa sixth, the other McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen seventh and BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld eighth.
Kaymer's runaway victory and elevation to world number two means that with Lee Westwood - who finished a lowly 64th - in top spot, Europeans hold the top two positions in the rankings for the first time since Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer in 1993.
He ranked number two in the world behind Federer for a record 160 weeks before ascending to the top spot in 2008.
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