The top-ranking officer in the Salvation Army, for example, has a taxable income of only $21,500.

The scheme has continued to draw the country's best talent after independence and has provided Indian Railways with its top-ranking officers in all walks.

Educated guesses could be made, and were made, but nobody outside the closed-in area save a very few top-ranking officers had any real knowledge.

This struck me as the most absurd of all, that even a top-ranking officer in the Flying Squad had to be tipped.

Nearly 80 percent of the rank-and-file firefighters live outside the city, he said, and only three of Trenton's 13 top-ranking officers live within it.

Their top-ranking officer if the admiral re- membered correctly-and a person to be reckoned with.

One former top-ranking officer put it this way the other day: "She's going to get her shoes broke."

He knew Governor Melnick would frown on an altercation between a top-ranking officer and a lowly grunt.

As the first reports came in from Aberdeen, the Army's top-ranking officers were in shocked denial.

And he has asked the top-ranking uniformed officer, Joseph J. Esposito, to stay on as chief of department.