11.   Industry insiders say there are many Democrats in the upper ranks of biotechnology, just as Clinton and Gore have many friends in Silicon Valley.

12.   It aspires to join Miramax and the others in the upper ranks of independent film, but it continues to work the lower reaches of video as well.

13.   More Latinos are starting new businesses, moving into management jobs and even taking roles in the upper ranks of corporate America.

14.   Norwich was one of the first military academies to recruit women and a few of its early graduates have now broken into the upper ranks of the military.

15.   Six years after the arrival of democracy, whites still dominate the upper ranks of the civil service, military, and police force.

16.   Such frustration is washing through the upper ranks of the Northern Alliance, the loose federation of military commanders holding out against the Taliban.

17.   The appointments are part of a redoubled effort to reinforce the upper ranks of a White House operation that has been given low marks for political savvy.

18.   The scandal has also reached into the upper ranks of the opposition.

19.   The upper ranks of the army companies are full of the relatives of senior officials.

20.   Then women broke into the upper ranks of business and public administration, and correctly addressing a letter to strangers became a dicier proposition.