1.   Although a NASA report ranked Hyde Security Services behind two competitors, Lott sided with Hyde.

2.   A government report ranks Indiana third in the nation for accidents and fifth for fatalities, with the greatest number coming in Northwestern Indiana.

3.   Acer says independent market reports have ranked it as the seventh largest personal computer maker in the world.

4.   But the report ranked most germ agents as only possible or unlikely threats.

5.   The Mayors Conference report ranked Texas second and third, respectively, in the two categories.

6.   The new report ranks states by how much pork that members of Congress from those states got into the budget.

7.   The report ranked the states where the federal government collected more tax dollars than it spent from highest to lowest.

8.   The report ranked metropolitan statistical areas as defined by the Census Bureau.

9.   While the report did not rank the countries based on the degree to which they limit freedom, the excesses attributed to the Iraqi government stood out.