Third on the panel s list is increased investment in the construction and maintenance of infrastructure.

Japan As Number Three

The Republic of Korea has overtaken the United States and now ranks number three worldwide (after New Zealand and Sweden), with a penetration rate of 65.7 per cent.

Number three isn't this stuff cool?

In third place are other undefined conditions.

Whereas the average number of working days lost due to strikes from 2000 to 2004 amounted to 234 per 1,000 employees in Spain, 171 in Canada, and 101 in France, only 3.5 days were lost in Germany. In the OECD s strike statistics, Germany ranks third from the bottom, ahead of only Poland, with 1.6 lost days, and Japan, with 0.4.

In 2007 it was placed third, behind Tampere and Oulu.

Croatia is ranked as the 18th most popular tourist destination in the world.

But Indonesia is number three, owing to its rapid deforestation.

Turin is ranked third in Italy, after Milan and Rome, for economic strength.

Likewise, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands rank, respectively, fifth and sixth on the Innovation Index, but only 28th and 29th on the Peace Index.

Unless they're Wonderwoman, in which case underwear is last.

But the US also has disturbingly low rankings in the quality of its infrastructure ( 24), technology availability and absorption ( 18), and the sophistication and breadth of its supply chain production processes ( 14).

He had placed third in the 1996 German championship and second in the 1997 German championship.

China is second only to Japan in its holdings of US Treasury bills.

Yemen also has the death penalty and ranks sixth in the world when it comes number of executions, according to Amnesty International. Saudi Arabia ranks fourth, behind China, Iran, and Iraq. The United States ranks fifth.

Injuries and poisonings are also increasing and they are in third place of specific causes of deaths.

The symptoms and other undefined conditions are in third place on the list.

A recent poll conducted among philosophers of the analytic school ranked Lewis the thirteenth most important philosopher of the past 200 years, and another ranked him as the third most important philosopher of the twentieth century.

According to the World Bank, Brazil ranks 130th out of 185 countries in terms of the ease of doing business.

If it were a U.S. state, Long Island would rank 13th in population (after Virginia) and first in population density.

In that war, among United States territories, Puerto Rico had ranked second (after the Hawaiian Islands) in terms of deaths and third in terms of other casualties.

It is also the world s top exporter of merchandise and the second largest exporter of goods and services.

It is ranked 30th overall on that scale, but is behind only three countries having a population over 16 million.

However, evidence of real political will is evidenced in the establishment of a programme offering sufferers access to anti retroviral therapies (Decision No.

Galloway Award for Best Written Brief was won by the University of Leiden, while the Sterns and Tennen Award for Best Oralist was won by Melissa Beiting of the United States team.

Number three on Charlotte's list was, I should have learned not to crush on guys three times my age.

Today the US is the world s third most populous country 50 years from now it is still likely to be third (after only China and India).

Lesotho is one of the poorest nations in the world and has the third highest HIV AIDS prevalence rate in the world.

India ranks fifth in the world in total production of wind power and third in terms of wind power added in 2008.

The liberals remain the third force of the European parliament, with around 80 deputies, less than its previous 100 members.

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ecuador finished ahead of Poland and Costa Rica finishing second behind Germany in Group A in the 2006 World Cup.

That will soon be the case again, even though in terms of per capita wealth China ranks roughly 100th in the world, trailing Albania.

It spent seven weeks at 1, and forty weeks in the top ten.

Despite its relatively small size (108,889 square kilometres), Guatemala is ranked 22nd among the 25 countries with the greatest biodiversity in the world.

For apparel consumers, for example, quality is second only to price when choosing a store, and second only to fashion when choosing a specific item.

The Netherlands, the UK, and Germany should also be concerned, as they come next in the ranking of countries whose banking systems have been hit hardest by the crisis.

Aware that Djibouti is included in the list of the least developed countries and that it is ranked 150th out of the 177 countries studied in the Human Development Report 2005,

Britain finished third in the gold medal count, behind the United States and China, much larger countries, but ahead of Russia, which traditionally competes with America for first place.

It is particularly difficult to start a business in China (151st), pay taxes (122nd), obtain construction permits (179th), and get electricity (115th).

China, the world s rising strategic player, might join this policy, though it currently ranks third in terms of military power.

In the United Kingdom, it peaked during the 1950s and 1960s as one of the top ten male first names (ranking third in 1954) but had fallen to twentieth by 1984 and had fallen out of the top one hundred by 2002.

It ranks, I believe, just below the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the start of Hitler s War in 1939 as the most critical moment of the twentieth century.

It had a history dating back to 1572 and was one of the oldest regiments in the British Army being third in order of precedence (ranked as the 3rd Regiment of the line).

However as we move from tertiary care facilities to primary care facilities, those in rural areas outnumber those in urban areas.