21.   He was removed as sergeant major of the army, the highest enlisted rank, last year.

22.   In an institution where graduation from the elite Naval Academy once was required to rise to the highest ranks, Boorda broke the mold.

23.   Knapp is a talented writer, an astute observer, and a dog lover of the highest rank.

24.   Last month, Mexico engaged in what has become an annual exercise of purging corruption from the highest ranks of its drug-fighting apparatus.

25.   Meanwhile, he was working his way up from walking a beat to the rank of lieutenant, the highest rank a black officer had achieved at the time.

26.   No black or Hispanic officer holds any of the eight highest ranks in the department, and no black officer holds a rank higher than sergeant.

27.   New England and the North Central states generally had the highest ranks, and the south the lowest.

28.   Now retired, Konishiki was once considered for the highest rank of Yokozuna, but was passed over.

29.   Now, nearly two decades later, he is an etoile, a dancer of the highest rank at the Paris Opera Ballet.

30.   Others are not so sure, and questioned whether Boorda might have tried to inflate his service record in hopes of advancing to the highest ranks of the Navy.