Today, we are fast becoming a second-rate power with huge budget and trade deficits.

The burden of excessive military spending has already taken a tremendous toll on Soviet society and threatens to render the country a second-rate power.

Unless the United States stimulates its savings, many of them say, over the long run the nation could turn into a second-rate economic power.

"Today they're being treated as a second-rate power," he said.

If Russia does not reform, it's dooming itself to being a second-rate power.

Doing nothing will, sooner rather than later, guarantee that this nation becomes a second-rate power with less opportunity and less freedom.

Do you want Japan to become a second-rate power?

No temporary difficulties can put Russia in the category of second-rate powers.

"I don't think we have an image of the United States becoming a second-rate economic power."

This fact is the reason that those countries are second-rate economic powers.