Riots by unpaid junior soldiers have yet to spread to the middle ranks but may do so.
That would place him within the middle ranks of New York's top office landlords, but one that is growing fast.
The rate of attrition in the middle ranks has slowed a bit in recent years, but the most senior jobs remain almost exclusively male.
Obviously bin Laden got the most attention, but even before the bin Laden operation we had decimated the middle ranks and some of the upper ranks of al Qaeda.
He has a tighter grip on the key army commands (though not necessarily the middle ranks) than he had when he was briefly overthrown by a coup in April.
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.
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.
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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.
That gave Arsenal total freedom to stroke the ball around but surprisingly they unwisely tried to play through the massed ranks in the middle.
It is mainly the middle and lower ranks of officials who are taking up where they left off under the old regime, but there are reports that senior bureaucrats and ministers at the oil and health ministries have been offered their jobs back by the US military.
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.
The Texas unemployment rate of 8.2% ranks near the middle for all states.
Meanwhile, thousands are smuggled in from Africa, the Middle East and Asia to swell the ranks of the sans-papiers those who have no identity papers to give them a right to residence.
For the first time Yemen's small urban middle class had joined the ranks of the disgruntled.
Across the growing ranks of middle-class China, elders are pampering, preening and often spoiling their kids like never before.
Future leaders will be drawn from the ranks of middle-aged provincial party secretaries and rising military officers, party insiders say.
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.
Alaska ranks in the middle of all states 30th in teen pregnancy.
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.
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.
The ranks of the world middle class could grow by hundreds of millions.
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.
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.
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Yemen ranks dead last, with the Middle East and Africa housing some of the poorest-performing countries.
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.
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