Political prisoners were at the bottom of the pecking order, making life a daily struggle.
Stuart Bentham, a former British army officer and VSAT operator, says "some customers are paying upwards of $5,000 a month .At the bottom of the pecking order, in terms of both cost and speed, are services offered by mobile-phone companies.
Rune maintains a poker face, his eyes alert and wary as he stifles any signs of fear and endures what amounts to continuous hazing as a newbie at the bottom of the pecking order.
"We feel more at home at this orphan car show than we do at the Italian Happening show each year -- there, we're just a throwaway car on the bottom of the pecking order," Mrs. Watch said.
"At a school like New York Law, which is toward the bottom of the pecking order, it's long been difficult for our students to find high-paying jobs," said Randolph N. Jonakait, a professor at N.Y.L.S. and a frequent critic of Mr. Matasar's.
As a female lecturer from an ethnic minority, I am at the very bottom of the pecking order.
"I don't want to say I'm at the bottom of the pecking order.
He did it because he was at the bottom of the pecking order.
We were at the bottom of the pecking order, but we were still on it.
