One is that many of the higher-ranking defectors are staff officers and medical officers.
However, as he closed in on higher-ranking officials he was transferred to a remote rural district.
"They prefer to hit a structure, or a higher-ranking target like an ambassador, " Mr. Melman said.
Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain, argues the problem is the military's policy of prosecuting only higher-ranking offenders.
Instead of being lauded for her heroism, she said, higher-ranking officers accused her of embellishing accounts of what happened.
Senior rebels said Friday that recent defections were partly due to Sunni officers coming under increasing threat from higher-ranking Alawites.
Riad al-As'ad, who held on to the top spot even after the January defection of Brigadier General Moustafa al-Shaikh, who now heads a military council meant to absorb higher-ranking defectors.
Higher-ranking members can put their girlfriends on the payroll.
Coetzee was central to many secrets of the apartheid era, but in giving him amnesty for his crimes, the Truth Commission found that he had simply been following orders from higher-ranking security police commanders.
BBC: Apartheid death squad boss Dirk Coetzee dies in Pretoria
This cliquey if democratic approach was later augmented by other algorithms that weight sites by other variables--news sites get a higher ranking than a 16-year-old's personal Web log.
To date the highest ranking soldier that has been convicted has been a staff sergeant and career ending, non-judicial punishments were handed out to two higher ranking officers.
But Bush said that because of the federal tax code, the benefits for higher level officers clearly outweigh the tax benefits for low-ranking troops, because much of their pay would already be at a very low tax rate.
MSN: Pentagon recommends better pay for front-line troops - US news | NBC News
Despite a 5-7 record on the gridiron last season, Tennessee produced a higher recruiting ranking (No. 32) than number of Peace Corps volunteers (22).
WSJ: National Signing Day: Five-Star Recruits vs. Five-Star Humanitarians
While JDate doesn't publicly release its algorithms, at the time of my experiment I observed that the more popular profiles come up higher in search results, allowing one to get a quick-and-dirty ranking of who's hot (or not).
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