21.   The BCS selected a team in Florida to play in the Orange Bowl over teams with better records and higher ranks.

22.   The only higher appointive ranks are inspector, deputy chief and chief.

23.   The student body chooses eight girls, who are introduced at a pep rally in alphabetical order, so that no one is given a higher rank.

24.   They are establishing their higher rank over someone in the household.

25.   This one, Norman conceded, ranks higher than any of his past failures on his personal misery index.

26.   Wednesday Major sought to reinforce his leadership by promoting two potentially dangerous party rivals to higher cabinet rank.

27.   President Boris Yeltsin gave his chief bodyguard and tennis partner a promotion Saturday, granting him a higher military rank, a Russian news agency reported.

28.   Pilots have grounded aircraft if the senior cabin crew are of a higher rank than the co-pilot.

29.   As in most countries in the region, women are greatly under-represented in the higher ranks of Thai government.

30.   Because she was a woman, she was never given a rank higher than lecturer.