ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

Gromley said, " It remained top secret except to select members of the US intelligence community.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

The following table lists the top vendors in 2006-2008 ( figures in millions of US dollars ) published in Gartner studies.

They are popular with urban and apartment dwellers, ranking among the top ten most popular breeds in 76 of 190 major US cities surveyed by the AKC.

In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.

Released as a single, the song became a top 40 hit in the UK and US.

Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

In 2010, CIA documents were released indicating that " top US officials never believed Powers ’ account of his fateful flight because it appeared to be directly contradicted by a report from the National Security Agency, the clandestine US network of codebreakers and listening posts.

The top 20 inorganic chemicals manufactured in Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the US ( 2005 data ):

Japan remains Cambodia ’ s top donor country providing some US $ 1. 2 billion in total overseas development assistance ( ODA ) during the period since 1992.

It is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation as one of the top 77 public research universities in the US and one of the top 76 in community engagement.

Each of their nine studio albums reached the top 10 of the Billboard album chart in the US, with six reaching the number-one spot.

The album's opening track, " Immigrant Song ", was released in November 1970 as a single in the US against the band's wishes, reaching the top twenty on the Billboard chart.

The original form takes the top level object as the country object, such as c = US, c = FR.

Raised between Fez and San Sebastian, Chef Najat Kaanache has served as an unofficial Culinary Ambassador of Morocco, sharing Moroccan flavors and cooking techniques with many of the world's top chefs during her pilgrimage through the best restaurant kitchens of Spain, Denmark, Holland and the US.

Although this exact scenario never came to pass in the US, where the Socialist Party remained small and marginal, events closely followed London's script elsewhere – for example in Chile in 1973, where the government of Socialist president Salvador Allende was overthrown by a CIA backed coup and forces led by General Augusto Pinochet, prompting later publishers of London's book to use a cover illustration depicting a poster of Allende being ground beneath the heel of a boot.

In the meantime, the US destroyer's targets escaped from an optimum firing setup ahead to a marginal position passing abeam, giving the American torpedoes a long overtaking run near the limit of their range.

However, as with the initial claims for the space shuttle, this is only the marginal cost, consisting of the electricity required to lift the elevator payload, but not operating overhead and maintenance ; whereas the fixed costs would be US $ 6 to 12 billion, for construction ; and one-way designs ( such as Edwards ') will add to the cost of the elevators.

This is not a marginal phenomenon ; in fact, according to the 2008 US Conference of Mayors, one in five homeless people are currently employed.

Individual income tax rate provisions in the 2001 law, for instance, created larger marginal tax rate decreases for people earning less than US $ 12, 000 than any other earners.

Though in Virginia Thomas Jefferson had it and it appears in Lady Jean Skipwith's lists of plants, in US gardens, it is little more than a marginal curiosity.

In a legal sense, a firm is often defined as engaging in predatory pricing if its price is below its short-run marginal cost, often referred to as the Areeda-Turner Law and which forms the basis of US antitrust cases.

In 1975, the average annual income per head for Rhodesian white people was around US $ 8, 000 ( with income tax at a marginal rate of 5 %) – making them one of the richest communities in the world.

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

Bulgaria is an industrialised upper-middle-income country according to the World Bank with a gross national income per capita of US $ 6, 280 in 2010.

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world with an average income per capita of € 250 ( US $ 300 ).

Most cable viewers in the US are in the suburbs and tend to be middle class ; cable television is less common in low income, inner city, and rural areas.

* Mapping to income tax schedules and TXF export for import into tax prep software ( US )

The people of Honduras are among the poorest in Latin America ; Gross national income per capita ( 2007 ) is $ US 1, 649 ; the average for Central America is $ US 6, 736.

In 1993 average annual per capita income remained depressingly low at about US $ 580, and 75 percent of the population was poor by internationally defined standards.

Offshore corporate funds are used for non-US investors, which would otherwise be subject to more complex tax issues by investing in a tax-transparent entity such as a partnership, and US entities that do not pay tax such as state, corporate, private and union pension funds, which would otherwise be subject to unrelated business income tax in the United States.

An accredited investor is an individual person with a minimum net worth of US $ 1 million or, alternatively, a minimum income of US $ 200, 000 in each of the last two years and a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year.

* In the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China, IKEA Beijing sold an alligator toy for 40 yuan ( US $ 5. 83, € 3. 70 ) with all income going to the children in the earthquake struck area

In the US, the tax on interest income on life insurance policies and annuities is generally deferred.

In 1968 James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith and another 1, 200 economists signed a document calling for the US Congress to introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements.

Milken's compensation, while head of the high-yield bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s, exceeded $ 1 billion in a four-year period, a new record for US income at that time.

Namibia is a low middle income country with an estimated annual GDP per capita of US $ 5, 155 but has extreme inequalities in income distribution and standard of living.

On June 23rd 2012, South Korea is landmarked to become the 7th member of the 20-50 club ( with the population surpassing 50 million and maintaining per capita income of US $ 20, 000 ), chronologically, after Japan, United States of America, France, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom.

Slot machines are the most popular gambling method in casinos and constitute about 70 percent of the average US casino's income.

In recent times, some prominent economists including Alan Greenspan have warned that the widening rich-poor gap in the U. S. population is a problem that could undermine and destabilize the country's economy and standard of living stating that " The income gap between the rich and the rest of the US population has become so wide, and is growing so fast, that it might eventually threaten the stability of democratic capitalism itself ".

The " People's Car " would be available to citizens of the Third Reich through a savings scheme at 990 Reichsmark ( US $ 396 in 1930s dollars )-- about the price of a small motorcycle ( an average income being around 32RM a week ).

The average annual income is US $ 250.

** American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).