Not only does Colonel Estrada appear to have a clean war-time record, but the installation of a colonel as head of the armed forces has meant the automatic exit of the 19 generals and one vice-admiral who outranked him, freeing jobs for younger, more reformist officers.It will be a tough enough job for President Portillo to push the army reforms through Congress.
The counsel for the defence outranked the prosecution and even the judges.
According to a paper by Carmelo Mesa Lago, a Cuban economist at the University of Pittsburgh, and Pavel Vidal, an economist at Havana University's Centre for the Study of the Cuban Economy (CEEC), in 1989 Cuba outranked every other Latin American country in all social indicators except housing.
The federal finance ministry might like this, but the laws that govern the savings banks are set at state level, where politicians are hostile to such reform.Germany's banks, which once stood behind (and partly owned) Europe's most powerful industries, are now outranked by rivals from America, Britain, Spain and Switzerland.
Its seventh graders outperformed all charter schools in maths and even outranked the city's public schools.
The volume of containerized cargo passing through the canal is outranked only by shipments of grain and petroleum products.
Outranked only by the Siberian rivers, the Volga drains an area of 533,000 square miles (1,380,000 square km).
His works outranked any fiction written by blacks until the 1930s.
By the end of the century, four other docks had been established along the Mersey, so that the port outranked even London in dock space.
The deification of the first two Flavians contributed to the same end, and so did the disappearance of old republican families that might have outranked the reigning house (by 69 most descendants of the republican nobility had either died of natural causes or been exterminated by imperial persecution).
At first he was outranked in the ruling family by Saddam's half brothers and later by his sons Uday and Qusay.
