Lower down, things are often worse: wages and pensions devour 70-80% of revenues in many states.
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Even lower down on the list, artists are getting paid considerable sums to shill products.
There was some meagre consolation to be had from the comings and goings lower down in government.
Lower down are complaints about staff smoking, staff appearance and 33 complaints about a lack of toilets on buses.
They were stopped not in the sensitive disputed region between Iraq and Iran, but lower down in the Gulf.
All of their brain activity is occurring in areas that are lower down and require much less conscious control.
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Lower down the range, there was the Volga, a mid-size saloon whose interior tended to fill with petrol fumes.
Lower down the ministerial ranks, the reshuffle saw the promotion of several women.
But business leaders are proving unwilling to let this relaxation in working culture spread lower down the company hierarchy.
They're much more relaxed than the people lower down on the dominance hierarchy.
If Europe's minds are indeed genuinely concentrated on high, no time should be wasted in taking action lower down.
The likelihood is that blame will mainly be apportioned lower down the line.
Maybe the Tory trick is to leave those lower down the pecking order to send out the toxic messages?
OBCs - a collection of caste groups lower down in the hierarchy - accounted for 3.8% of the directors.
Most sixth forms also offer students far greater freedom in the sixth form than they had lower down the school.
And in practice, the insertion of a new grade will mean that it will devalue grades lower down the scale.
Gillespie told BBC Sport that he had turned other offers from "lower down" before plumping for the loan move to Charlton.
And, as she points out, there are many people lower down the pecking-order at her firm who travel almost as much.
Lower down the ladder institutions are experiencing drop-out rates of around 25%.
Homes have also been flooded lower down the River Wye at Brockweir.
As a result, Britain's top rate of tax is significantly lower than in many developed economies but takes effect lower down the earnings scale.
Former Australia international Jason Gillespie believes Bopara would benefit from a spot lower down the order, suggesting more senior players should shoulder greater burden.
But as funding conditions worsened last year, the region's largest banks began to hoard it, causing a credit crunch lower down the financial food chain.
Gandur is making friends lower down the social scale, as well.
Google said it will tweak its PageRank algorithm so that websites which make copyrighted content available illegally come lower down the list of search results.
Heavy, gritty particles seem to be sitting at around 8, 000ft (2440m) , while lower down in the atmosphere there are sulphurous chemicals and finer dust particles.
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However, lower down on the same page is a proposal to award the next lottery franchise, which starts in 2001, by means of a competitive tender.
Giving further evidence to this truth: the lower down on the income scale a person is, the more likely they are to tap into their retirement funds.
Mia Randall-Coath, executive secretary of the International Women's Polo Association, admits that while sponsorship money has been "tight" for clubs lower down the pyramid, the sport is resistant.
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