The company's numbers stand in particular contrast to Moody's, which has not given the highest ratings to any deal it rated over the last two years.
Fitch, the third big ratings agency, gave higher ratings on only 8 percent of the bonds it rated over the last year.
The new wrinkle this year is that, for the first time, the N.C.A.A. publicly disclosed its full "S-curve" — exactly how it rated the teams from 1 through 68.
It rated the hospital trust as "good" for its quality of service in 2008-09 and "excellent" the previous year.
It rated Challenger "the most satisfying car to own" in its January 2010 issue.
I know that in 2006, Greenpeace published its first guide to green electronics and at that point it rated Apple among the worst companies (it ranked 11 out of 14 companies).
It rated such incidents by degree.
Clue: it rated 8.8 on the Richter scale.
It rated TXU's corporate debt four notches below that.
On Sunday, TIM ZAGAT, the restaurant-guide publisher, told Mr. Brown it rated a 30.
As a put-down, it rated no higher than a playground "Your Mum".
