Caijing, he said, had achieved a stature that put it out of reach of lower-ranking bureaucrats.
CEOs are notably more skilled than lower-ranking employees in certain aspects of some emotional intelligence skills.
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The big changes, says Kim, are that Merck is giving lower-ranking employees more say, and dissent is far more encouraged.
So the question for other, lower-ranking brands becomes, how can I work to forge greater emotional attachment with our consumers?
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The IMF sent a lower-ranking official to Brussels in his place who had no latitude to deviate from the IMF's deadline.
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He ordered one of the officials to be arrested and said he was handing back the case to a lower-ranking judge.
"The government has failed to effectively investigate and punish lower-ranking soldiers for such deaths, and has not held senior officers responsible, " Alston said.
"By dispatching a lower-ranking official, the U.S. is sending a sacrificial lamb, " says Zhao Di, a senior majoring in Arabic at the Beijing Languages and Culture University.
Throughout last year, warnings from lower-ranking officials about the country's mounting currency problems went unheeded as senior officials hoped to muddle through until after the presidential election.
There may be many women or ethnic minorities in the hotel and catering sector, for instance, but they are likely in lower-ranking jobs such as maids or bellhops.
Some lower-ranking companies may have ties to the yakuza, Japan's mafia, and among the lowest-paid recruits are members of the burakumin minority, who have long been discriminated against.
Between July 2008 and this month, U.S. drones have killed dozens of lower-ranking militants and at least 10 mid- and upper-level leaders within al Qaeda or the Taliban.
Yet a lower-ranking Islamic Affairs Ministry official connected to the case was convicted in May, in part because of a wiretap recording in which Mr. Azimi was heard discussing the alleged bribes.
That would make owning lower-ranking clubs more profitable.
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In February this year, a new law allowing former low-ranking Baath party members to become civil servants again meant that some lower-level officials who had served under Saddam Hussein were allowed back to work in Baghdad's ministries.
For example, earlier this year the University of Minnesota found that charters in the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul lagged behind public elementary schools, ranking 7.5% lower for maths and 4.4% lower for reading.
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