• That would place him within the middle ranks of New York's top office landlords, but one that is growing fast.

    WSJ: Midtown New York Push

  • The rate of attrition in the middle ranks has slowed a bit in recent years, but the most senior jobs remain almost exclusively male.

    ECONOMIST: Closing the gap

  • According to Afghan and American officials, Karzai decided to remove Bismillah Khan as Army chief over fears that he was packing the middle ranks of the Afghan officer corps with fellow Jamiat officers who might be more loyal to him than to the Afghan state.

    NEWYORKER: After America

  • In the middle ranks, outside hotspots such as London, the south-east and Bristol, the rewards are often not out of line with those for comparable private-sector jobs, if pensions, benefits and holidays are all added in, and have recently been rising in relative terms as private-sector pay has stalled.

    ECONOMIST: The pay is better than it was. The bureaucracy is worse

  • There is a broad pattern repeated across these tables, with a cluster of Asian, Pacific Rim, countries at the top, European and western countries in the upper and middle ranks, with countries in North Africa and the Middle East in the lower ranks.

    BBC: Asians top of school tables - England in maths top 10

  • That gave Arsenal total freedom to stroke the ball around but surprisingly they unwisely tried to play through the massed ranks in the middle.

    BBC: Adebayor proved too much for Fulham to handle

  • Thus, the very person who rose quickly to the ranks of middle management because of an ability to follow orders diligently is now seen as too passive for an executive position.

    FORBES: Leadership

  • The Texas unemployment rate of 8.2% ranks near the middle for all states.

    FORBES: Perry Not Letting Anyone Run to His Right

  • For the first time Yemen's small urban middle class had joined the ranks of the disgruntled.

    ECONOMIST: He really is on the way out

  • Across the growing ranks of middle-class China, elders are pampering, preening and often spoiling their kids like never before.

    CNN: LITTLE EMPERORS

  • The menswear maker, which produces garments for Tommy Hilfiger and Polo, expanded its profit by 56% in 2012 by improving its own high-end Black Label brand, which appeals to the growing ranks of middle-class men in second-tier cities.

    WSJ: The First-Lady Effect on China's Fashion Labels

  • Heineken gets 21% of its profits from Africa already, and this figure is set to skyrocket as African incomes rise and millions of Africans join the ranks of the middle classes.

    FORBES: Beer Stocks: The Keg Party is in Emerging Markets

  • For the massed ranks of the middle-aged who have neither the time nor the inclination to hang out in record stores, rubbing stubble with the hip, it means pure joy: at the click of a mouse, they will be able to download that seminal Beach Boys album.

    ECONOMIST: A new song

  • The ranks of the world middle class could grow by hundreds of millions.

    FORBES: Back to Work!

  • Greenpeace ranks Apple in the middle of the pack of tech companies -- behind HP and Dell but ahead of Samsung, Sony and others -- in terms of its sustainability and environmental friendliness.

    CNN: Apple abandons green certification

  • Meanwhile, the city's middle-class ranks shrink.

    FORBES: Stop The Bonuses

  • While Iran in recent years has claimed more than 12 million in the ranks of the group, Middle East experts put the figure closer to 300, 000 -- though they concede it's difficult to quantify a sprawling militia that has full-time and reservist cadres.

    CNN: Feared Basij militia has deep history in Iranian conflict

  • Yemen ranks dead last, with the Middle East and Africa housing some of the poorest-performing countries.

    FORBES: Sweden Tops World Rankings for Internet Access

  • As a middle manager rising through Donnelley's ranks in the 1980s and 1990s, Daly earned a reputation as a fiery leader who likes to shake up the status quo.

    FORBES: Pressing for change

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