Bradesco is Brazil's largest private-sector bank and the country's third-largest financial services company.
The speed of Iceland's downfall in the week since it announced it was nationalizing Glitnir bank, the country's third largest, caught many by surprise, despite warnings it was the "canary in the coal mine" of the global credit squeeze.
Sainsbury's, whose shares have risen 24% in the last 12 months, is the country's third-largest supermarket after Tesco and Asda.
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The country's third largest city has seen some of the worst of the fighting, a terribly large share of the casualties, and a shocking amount of destruction.
The National Trust, which has almost three million members and is the country's third largest landowner, wants to see tax breaks, grants and other financial incentives to support the protection and conservation of the historic environment.
Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, the country's third-largest health insurer, broke the silence on Dec. 12.
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On April 6th China Construction Bank, the country's third-largest lender, reported its results for 2005.
Initially he built an eight-bedroom compound in Kabul and another, bigger residence in Herat, the country's third-largest city.
The cut represents roughly 10% of all elementary school facilities in Chicago Public Schools, the country's third-largest school district.
The Icelandic government takes control of the country's third-largest bank, Glitnir, after the company faces short-term funding problems.
And Hertling said Nineveh -- home of the country's third-largest city, Mosul -- is an important geographic region because it borders Syria.
In January it bought most of Priorbank, the country's third-largest bank.
Debitel, which owns no cables or transmitters, has already become the country's third-largest mobile-telephone operator by buying capacity from other companies and marketing it more shrewdly.
Rowe has become the country's third-largest direct marketer of funds.
The moves represent an about-face for Fidelity, one of the first institutional investors to take a significant stake in Facebook and the country's third-largest mutual-fund company by assets.
Fidelity, the country's third-largest mutual-fund firm by assets, had been an early supporter of Facebook, with many of its funds bulking up on shares when the company went public.
Deals with Verizon and Sprint, the country's second and third largest carriers, would give Google a wide platform for its software.
The mix of economic rigour and reformist politics seemed a promising one for Brazil, the world's fourth-largest democracy but its third most unequal country and one with an unhappy tradition of political corruption (see article).
But recent indicators on Britain's economy, the third-largest in the 27-country EU after Germany and France, have been disappointing.
Political commentator Nichole Bacharan says the election was the triumph of a platform proposing far-reaching reforms for Europe's third-largest economy over one stressing the need to preserve the country's welfare state.
But the country still came in above Italy - Europe's third largest economy.
The Film Distributors Association said that the UK remains the world's third largest cinema-going market, with 40 million admissions to screens around the country so far this year.
Japanese stocks jumped and the yen sank after the country's central bank announced aggressive measures for getting the world's third-largest economy out of a two-decade slump.
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