One study recently ranked Mexico as the world's third-highest country for crime, behind only Afghanistan and Guatemala.
It was important, said Cheney, that the military recognised its own contribution as the largest polluter in the world's second highest polluting country.
In 1997, Cuban students scored much higher than the Latin American average and much higher than the second highest scoring country, Argentina.
Here in Ontario, undergraduate tuition fees are the second highest in the country, yet Ontario has the lowest professor-student ratio in the country.
New York's combined state and local tax burden is the second highest in the country, after Hawaii's.
The UK has 32 institutions in the top 200 – the second highest of any country and three more than last year.
The number of contacts off the US coast was fives times higher than the second highest recording by country, which was Australia.
Even here, where the syphilis rate is the second highest in the country among major cities, topped only by Indianapolis, the numbers are less than staggering.
Residents of Lafayette had more than twice the national rate of angioplasties in 2003, the second highest in the country behind Elyria, according to the Dartmouth researchers.
Anecdotal evidence across Florida, which has 3.5 million uninsured residents, the second highest in the country, indicated that few Floridians managed to enroll.
