At least for the people in the top.

His house was in sight from the top of the hill.

And we just count on down to the bottom.

The leadership failures at Centcom reach to the very top of the organization.

Seen from the top of the hill, the island is very beautiful.

I don't think this old car will make it to the top of the hill.

What's true for business bosses is doubly true for presidents and prime ministers.

The revenue of the top handful of companies in this space is over 39 billion dollars today.

In the recovery of 2009 2010, the top 1 of US income earners captured 93 of the income growth.

But now the structure is more like the profile of a skyscraper, more or less the same from top to bottom.

Check out these incredible photos that the pair took from the top of Shanghai Tower, and some other snaps of Shanghai.

The clear trend is one of concentration of income and wealth at the top, the hollowing out of the middle, and increasing poverty at the bottom.

As a proportion of income, they fall almost continuously, from 50 at the 10th percentile to 2.5 at the very top.

My investigation included the secret business of president Ilham Aliyev s family and documented the facts of corruption on the highest level, disclosed the offshore businesses of members of the ruling family.

What is fairly new, at least for Russians, is that these technologies are efficiently coordinated from the top of the presidential administration.

As a proportion of income, it declines almost continuously, from 34 at the 10th percentile to 3 at the very top.

This road movie takes viewers from the turbulent urban environment of Caracas to the rural landscapes of the Venezuelan state of Bolivar, all the way to the top of Mount Roraima.

It also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, ABBA's first American number one single on any chart.

But many politicians defend Stanculescu among them, the current Defense Minister Victor Babiuc, former President Ion Iliescu, and most top army officers.

The associated revenue increase was, at least, across the board, rather than the unbalanced hike in marginal tax rates at the top that was enacted.

A meritocratic society is one in which if you've got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top. Nothing should hold you back.

Modernization, indeed, simply turned out to be yet another redistribution of property to those on top, particularly those who came out of the St. Petersburg mayoral office and the Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

With the end of Ahmadinejad s second and final term fast approaching, it seems unlikely that the disgraced, unpopular president will abandon his efforts to destabilize Iran s ruling establishment.

Ahmadinejad maintains some support among the poor and rural classes, but he is viewed with disdain by much of the ruling class, even within his own political camp.

It might not be so bad if there were even a grain of truth to trickle down economics the quaint notion that everyone benefits from enriching those at the top.

But, while this was reflected in reformist trends in the country s wider political life, a movement toward militant fundamentalism took shape within the regime s power structure.

As a share of income, it declines sharply from 70 at the 10th percentile to 16 at the top (in other words, the top bracket pays more in taxes than it receives in government benefits).

Basic reed measurements are as follows tip, wide lay, long (distance from the place where the reed touches the mouthpiece to the tip) gap, (distance between the underside of the reed tip and the mouthpiece).

In fact, the basic concept that is sometimes called Web 2.0 rests on the idea of user based content bubbling up from below rather than descending from the top of a traditional information hierarchy.

One of the reasons for the joy demonstrated by Balkan nationalists is the perception that the internal division would draw the attention of the EU away from its periphery, weakening its influence to demand the kind of reforms that could affect both national sovereignty and the grip on power held by corrupt elites.

Thus, the government has moved in the wrong direction since 2009, sharply raising marginal tax rates at the bottom (by dramatically increasing transfer programs) and, more recently, at the top (by raising tax rates on the rich).

Those seeking the positive will find in the statistics concerning increased median income, reduced poverty, and record low unemployment those in search of the bleak will find it in the 12 of America s population that remains poor and in the country s increasing concentration of wealth at the top.

Social security taxes as a proportion of income rise gradually from 5 at the 10th percentile to 9 at the 80th percentile, stay there at the 90th percentile, but then fall off sharply to 5 at the top.