1.   He longed to join the upper social ranks.

2.   An engineering degree is one of the surest tickets to advancement in America, and is already helping to propel some women into the upper ranks of management.

3.   As a result, many accounting and law firms are trying to promote women to the upper ranks to get that business.

4.   A tricky hurdle for Iowa State in its climb toward the upper ranks.

5.   But the case also illustrates the extent to which corruption has infected the upper ranks of the government.

6.   But turnover also can be a problem in the upper ranks.

7.   Clearing the upper ranks is the only way to create wholesale institutional change, he said.

8.   Diplomats said that the Japanese were lobbying for that job because there are suddenly fewer Japanese in the upper ranks of the organization.

9.   He has threatened to expose deep veins of corruption reaching into the upper ranks of the department.

10.   He said he has expressed concern to the upper ranks of the agency.