1.  Donna E. Shalala, the secretary of Health and Human Services, gave it her highest rating and then took home the leftovers.

2.  Despite the complaints, Sunday's opening installment of the miniseries garnered 50million viewers, the highest overnight rating for a movie on any network this season.

3.  Don't forget news: BET pulled the highest ratings of any cable program recently with its O.J. interview.

4.  Eighty-seven percent approved of the job he is doing, the highest ratings ever recorded for a president in the poll.

5.  During the late bull market, companies which wished to receive the highest rating on Wall Street aimed to produce steady earnings growth of 15 percent a year.

6.  Evangeline and Excel earned the highest ratings, with 2.2 and 2, respectively.

7.  Exactly half of the respondents indicated they liked Gingrich at least a bit, with 6 percent giving him the highest rating.

8.  Finally the highest PRL rating of 2.5 means the timber can be used as pilings immersed in saltwater.

9.  For the hour, BET scored a 6.9 rating, the highest rating for any program in the channel's history.

10.  For the week that ended on Aug. 23, after Clinton acknowledged having an inappropriate relationship, the networks had their highest ratings of the year.