When he took over, Mr Barroso palmed off the French commissioner with the second-level portfolio of transport.
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It implies that top-level domains (after the dot) and second-level names (left of the dot) are the same.
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By mid-2012, Italy had the second-highest level of public debt - a towering 123% of GDP (annual economic output) - in the eurozone.
With a booming population more than two-thirds of Saudi citizens are under 30 the region already has the world's second-highest level of youth unemployment, after sub-Saharan Africa.
Even with the decline, the Dow remains at its second-highest level in history, not counting inflation.
The "Watchcon" alert was raised to its second-highest level on Thursday, a government spokeswoman told CNN.
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The government raised the security alert in railway stations and airports to red, the second-highest level.
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"Orange" is the second-highest level in the nation's five-tiered, color-coded threat alert system.
And sales of previously occupied homes rose to the second-highest level in three years, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.
Short interest at New York Stock Exchange member firms plunged 10.5% in December to the second-lowest level in the past two years.
Short interest now stands at its second-lowest level in the past two years (only the reading in early February 2011 was lower).
One area with potential is gold equities, which have lagged bullion significantly this year, pushing the gold-to-XAU ratio to the second-lowest level in nearly 30 years in June.
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Global fabrication demand slipped in 2011 by 1.5% to 876.6 million ounces, or 27, 265 metric tons, although the total was the second-highest level since 2000, the report said.
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Applications for unemployment insurance payments fell by 10, 000 to 332, 000, according to the Labor Department, representing the second-lowest level in five years, and below market expectations of 350, 000 reading.
When philanthropists talk about the spiritual aspects of giving anonymously, they often cite the 12th-century Jewish wise man Maimonides, who ranked anonymous giving as the second-highest level of charity.
New York has been on "orange" alert, or the second-highest level -- indicating a high risk of terror attack -- since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
It has the second-lowest level of both debt and interest payments as shares of GDP, but the CDS market shows that Spanish government debt is a greater risk than bonds from either Italy or Belgium.
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Construction on new homes in the U.S. slowed to its second-lowest level on record Tuesday, reflecting the continued pain that the housing market is feeling with low home prices and high inventories making new home sales suffer.
Ferrer, who had been seeking to become the first Spaniard to win the Miami title, was denied his second Masters-level crown after a demoralizing defeat that means he has yet to beat a top-five player in any of his 37 career finals.
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The nation's civilian "high" alert -- the second highest level of warning -- was put in place Tuesday.
Santai is a county level city under the jurisdiction of Minyiang, the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in southwestern China.
For many of the fifth graders, it's clearly a struggle to demonstrate the second-grade-level skill.
But second-placed Frankfurt pulled level with two goals inside two second half minutes from Stefan Aigner and Takashi Inui.
Italy has Europe's second-largest debt level and the cost of that debt has been rising in recent weeks as lenders to Italy have become nervous about its ability to repay loans.
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Ballot initiatives, the crack cocaine of democracy, have left only around a quarter of its budget within the power of its representative politicians. (One reason budget cuts are inevitable is that voters rejected tax increases in a package of ballot measures in May.) Not that Californian government comes cheap: it has the second-highest top level of state income tax in America (after Hawaii, of all places).
Some Cambridge colleges have used students' actual marks from their A2 units - the second part of the A-level.
Having taken the first set to a tie-break, Soderling fought back from 4-2 down in the second set to level at 4-4 but Nadal -- who lost to Andy Murray in the final last year -- showed no signs of the inconsistency that plagued the latter half of his 2009 campaign as he clinched victory.
The 23-year-old, ranked second in the world, carded a level-par round of 72 on Thursday but produced a much improved performance during his second round.
It had not piloted the A2 section - the second year of study - before the A-level was split into two parts in 2000.
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