1.   And the company ranked third for the year in customer complaints about technology, the report said.

2.   A Taiwan company ranked Atchison County highly for its hog-slaughtering plant but instead chose the Springfield, Mo., area.

3.   After the merger, the company will rank first or second in nine Virginia communities.

4.   But the company still ranks as the second-costliest operator among the Bells.

5.   Call your state insurance department and ask where your insurance company ranks on the list of complaints.

6.   Car-rental companies rank second or third among airport revenue sources.

7.   It will promise to sell that company to a jittery market at a time when telephone companies rank just behind Internet start-ups on the list of spurned stocks.

8.   Rorer said the combined companies would rank fourth in the worldwide asthma and allergy drug market, behind Glaxo Wellcome, Schering-Plough and Astra of Sweden.

9.   Strunk, the analyst, said the company had ranked each worker on a scale of one to five in performance reviews at the end of last year.

10.   The combined companies would rank behind only AXA and Allianz of Germany in the European insurance industry.