• What makes it unique, however, is not the vast array of fine art on display, nor the fact that the galleries are housed in a glorious mansion once home to high ranking pashas (a high ranking Ottoman general) and Egyptian governors.

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  • "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.

    NPR: No. 1 Gonzaga Beats LMU 66-48 To Reach WCC Final

  • 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).

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  • 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.

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  • The Copenhagen Consensus, a project led by Bjorn Lomborg, a professor at the University of Aarhus, in Denmark, and publicised by this newspaper, made something of a splash a few months ago by ranking climate change at the bottom of a list of pressing global problems (see articles).

    ECONOMIST: The debate over global warming is getting rancorous

  • Pete Sampras won 14 Grand Slam titles, is tied for the records for most wins at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, and held the year-end Number One world ranking for a record six consecutive years (1993-1998).

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  • Including Fiorina, each of HP's 15 highest-ranking executives (10 from HP, 5 from Compaq) is a seller as well as a manager, calling on 7 to 15 accounts.

    FORBES: Cover Story

  • Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A high-ranking Cuban diplomat Wednesday accused U.S. officials of lying about the case of jailed American contractor Alan Gross and said Havana would not bend to pressure to free Gross immediately.

    CNN: Cuba accuses U.S. of lying about jailed American's health

  • This ranking is based on a performance measurement of the "K computer(1), " currently under their joint development.

    ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A

  • Chinese state television is showing five hours a day (its top ranking in the medals table may help).

    ECONOMIST: The Paralympics

  • Only one industry in the bottom 10 ranking saw a sales decline, and that was land subdivision (NAICS 2372), which includes companies that subdivide and prepare land for subsequent sale to builders.

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  • Letter composed in December 2010 from a high-ranking personality, possibly Ayman al-Zawahiri (PDF) The letter refers to the request from the al-Shabab group in Somali to unite with al Qaeda.

    CNN: The Osama bin Laden documents

  • We then compared each everyday player's (minimum 370 at bats) productivity ranking to his salary ranking to record a value differential.

    FORBES: Best Hitters And Best Bargains

  • Our ranking formula ignores the original amount invested in a deal (as it is often undisclosed), instead weighing most heavily the market capitalization of a venture-backed company on the close of its first day of trading or the purchase price in an acquisition.

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  • The statistical methodology adopted for the ranking gives each business school a unique score (known to statisticians as a z-score).

    ECONOMIST: Which MBA? rankings

  • In testimony delivered last week ( excerpts attached) alongside high-ranking officials of California's Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) pension fund, a delegation invited by State Sen.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Conceptually, one can think of the final PRVit score as a ranking based on the ratio of intrinsic value (calculated from performance and risk) relative to current market value.

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  • The chief executives of America's 500 biggest companies (as measured by a composite ranking of sales, profits, assets and market value) got an aggregate 54% pay raise last year.

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  • 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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  • On Thursday, Web site administrators for major sites including the Washingtonpost.com, Techcrunch, and Engadget (as well as Forbes.com) found that their "pagerank"--a number that typically reflects the ranking of a site in Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) results for key search terms--had dropped precipitously according to Google Toolbar, a software program that tracks Google's assessment of a site.

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  • As a check, he compared our ranking to a more common yardstick, the number of published patents (arguably an even cruder measure).

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  • All teams are ranked based on single-season dominance (dynasties are a subject for another day), with no attempt at ranking clubs across the four sports.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • One example: Consumers who one month pay only a portion of an online bill (a practice known as "paying short") might knock their Fiserv ranking but would not impact their credit score.

    FORBES: Global 2000

  • That said, there was a clear (but certainly not perfect) correlation between intellectual horsepower and V100 ranking.

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  • In Melbourne, Djokovic confirmed his No. 1 ranking by winning his third consecutive Australian Open title with a win over Murray, 6-7(2), 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-2.

    WSJ: Lessons Learned at Australian Open

  • And last--but certainly not least--our new earnings ranking, provided by PayScale, looks at average salaries (base pay, not including bonuses) for a basket of common professions.

    FORBES: Most Overpriced Places In The U.S. 2006

  • With Google now as much a verb as a company name, search engine optimization (or SEO)--the process of increasing a site's odds of ranking high in the search stacks--is a key consideration for any e-commerce player.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Michigan's John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee "offered a 24-hour background check to (Judiciary Committee Chairman) Mr. Hyde ... as long as there was some provision for holding ... the 5 to 8 percent of the applications that can't be cleared in 24 hours, " Clinton explained.

    CNN: Clinton advocates parental liability on guns

  • After a religious takeover of the United States, the few women who can conceive a child (radiation has made most of them sterile) are given to high-ranking government officials to bear them children.

    FORBES: 3 Dystopian Futures Women Could Face Thanks to Rick Santorum

  • As a composer, Mr. Robinson wrote 145 Billboard hits including 18 No. 1 singles for Motown, such as "My Guy, " "My Girl, " "Tears of a Clown" and "Get Ready" ranking him in 10th place (after Carole King) on Record Research's list of post-1955 hit songwriters.

    WSJ: Smokey Robinson: A Most Enduring Miracle | Cultural Conversation by Marc Myers

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