White House officials said the document was not intended to rank issues in any priority.
This year, the G.O.P. is also crowd-sourcing the committee's work at platform.gop, asking anyone who visits the site to rank issues about, for instance, the Constitution: Which is more important to you, human life or the Second Amendment?
Ian Burke, chief executive, said trading had stabilised in the nine weeks since Rank issued a severe profits warning in October but warned that the short-term outlook remained "challenging".
In fact, when the Pew Research Center asked registered Hispanic voters to rank issues that matter to them in order of importance, immigration didn't rank first -- second or third -- on their lists.
In June 2007, the New York Times ran an article announcing that Sarah Lawrence, Barnard, Kenyon, and several other small liberal arts college presidents have opted out of the U.S. News & World Report ranking issue.
Medical issues rank number 1 on the list of topics of the conversation (table 2).
Based on the monthly ranking issued by FIFA, which makes American college football rankings seem tame, the Group of Death this time around is Argentina (2nd), England (10th), Sweden (16th) and Nigeria (40th, but with immense European-based talent).
Maybe we generate structured decision matrices by ranking issues, scoring the candidates' positions on each issue and then totaling the results — whoever has the most points wins our votes.
Ramirez has driven in 432 runs the past three seasons and was rated this week as the top position player in the annual ranking issued by the Elias Sports Bureau based on criteria players and owners agreed to in 1981.
Citi has replaced HSBC and joined JP Morgan in the highest ranking issued by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international alliance of central bankers, policy makers and regulators that sorts 30 major banks into five categories.
