• Having risen once before to the rank of first-deputy prime minister, he was sacked in January 1996 when hostility to privatisation was at its zenith and Mr Yeltsin needed a scapegoat.

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  • He goes into the politics and jockeying, from Mr Aldrin's vociferous campaign to be first, to Mr Armstrong's pulling rank (as commander of the module, he was higher in the NASA hierarchy).

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  • The Chinese sports hero also topped all his countrymen to rank No. 1 on our first Forbes China Celebrity List, released today by Forbes China, the Chinese-language edition of Forbes magazine.

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  • Understand, we used to be first, and we now rank 9th.

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  • And the first rank is determined to stay ahead.

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  • The three first rank macroeconomic variables critical to economic growth are monetary, tax, and regulatory policy.

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  • Keith Alexander, to the rank of General and appointment as the first commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, which by most accounts will have the mission of not only defending U.S. military networks, but also conducting offensive cyberwar operations.

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  • Kennedy, former U.S. Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence, is the first and only woman to have received this flag rank in the U.S. Army.

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  • To be sure, there are many areas in which China does rank first in the world.

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  • To say the first year was a struggle and tense with the rank and file is an understatement.

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  • It is the first and only measure that can be used to compare and rank the profitability performance of companies in multiple industries.

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  • "Truly the events at Newtown changed us all, " said Manchin, citing the Connecticut town where December's murders of 20 first-graders and six educators propelled gun control to the top rank of national issues.

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  • The first woman in the Army Reserve to be promoted to the general officer rank.

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  • For the first time this decade, six of the eight teams poised to make the playoffs rank among baseball's top nine payrolls.

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  • Carey's election in 1991 had seemed to signal an end to that era, with the union's rank and file voting directly for its leaders for the first time.

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  • The appointment of Egemen Bagis, a sharp young English-speaker, as Turkey's first cabinet-rank EU negotiator suggests that Mr Erdogan may make a fresh effort to put the EU talks back on track.

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  • The totals were then averaged and an absolute ranking assigned. (Xtreme Labs works with eCommerce retailers but did not have to rank any of its own clients, the company says.) Among those favorability rankings, Walgreens finished first on Apple products and sixth on Android phones, while CVS placed second over iOS and was the top performer over Android devices.

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  • The bill paves the way for a referendum on changing the Westminster electoral system from first-past-the-post to the Alternative Vote (AV) system, whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference on the ballot paper.

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  • Technological and marketing prowess has brought it to a rank of 47, up from 75 last year and 762 (as "Apple Computer") when we first computed the list in 2004.

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  • As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.

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