1.   Adding to the frustration of shareholders is an apparently rising discord within company ranks.

2.   Case said AOL and Netscape are in the process of poring over company ranks to determine possible cutbacks.

3.   He takes great pride in bringing immigrants into his company ranks, men and women whose hardscrabble backgrounds propel them toward the uniquely American goal of invention.

4.   He was married, a father of two, a well-regarded man in Hemingway who had worked his way through the company ranks.

5.   Last week, two documents, including a memo allegedly from Roach, circulated with claims of low employee morale and surveillance of dissenters in company ranks.

6.   On Friday, the only hint he offered was that he is looking within company ranks for someone to succeed him as chief executive of Perot Systems.

7.   Rumblings within company ranks come at a critical time for Amtrak, officially known as the National Passenger Railroad Co.

8.   The company ranks seventh in advising on technology mergers and acquisitions in the five months since Quattrone was promised millions in exchange for bringing in more technology business.

9.   The new company ranks fifth in worldwide car and truck sales and third in total revenues.