Fund managers and private investors that followed the Fed, ECB and BoJ this year, even as a top down passive investor, did well.
In future, Iran's subsidy reform may even be seen as a model for top-down social change, not unlike successful schemes pioneered by Mexico and Brazil.
Of course, even as a means to evaluate the relative performance of a league's top sides, it's the kind of metric that needs to be taken with inevitable caveats.
They have been among the biggest discussion points in college football during the second half of 2012, and they will be even more so going into 2013 as a likely Top 5 team.
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Even cloven, Marathon would be formidable, as a top-ten U.S. explorer and producer, with 380, 000 barrels per day, and the fifth-largest refiner.
Dunwall is rotting from the bottom up from an infectious disease even as a corrupt cancer threatens to control it from the top.
As a result, it even lost its position at the top of the handset market to Samsung.
Over the years, Melgen has become regarded as a top ophthalmologist, speaking at conferences and even operating on then-Gov. Lawton Chiles in 1997.
However, one thing holds true today: Most people still want to grow as a professional and get to the top, even if they do it more laterally.
If the Orange enters the tourney as less than a top seed, their odds are even lower.
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But if Facebook is any indication, Gingrich may not be having that fantastic a month online, even as he's risen to the top in polls of Republican voters.
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Even as Bill Clinton sat with Kim Jong Il, Philip Goldberg, a top administration official, is in Moscow seeking Russia's support to implement tough sanctions against North Korea.
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Even as late as the early 2000s only a handful of Americans played for European top-flight teams.
The team is cruising to the American League Central crown with a 90-60 record, and may even wind up as the top seed in the AL playoff bracket.
Essentially, employees are handing Mallya and his top executive Sanjay Agarwal a no-confidence vote even as they appealed to its Delhi-based engineers today to not resort to legal action.
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Frankly, from what I have seen, I would not trade places with those 120 top-tiered coaches, even if I was talented as a CEO over a 200 people, nearly half of which are unpredictably teenagers.
Rick O'Shea and the Scrum V team followed them for the year, with regular pieces on the Sunday show as we brought in top coaches, a nutritionist, and even the cheerleaders who helped inspire them to promotion.
Looking at the Nook for a second, you can immediately isolate the top as the light source, with a stronger concentration and somewhat even distribution.
This will mean that even though top earners may pay more in taxes, they will get higher income as a result of the growth they unleash.
Obama, who's embraced immigration legislation as a top second-term priority, also praised the Senate bill Tuesday even though it is stricter in some areas than his own approach on immigration.
The mayor's team even hung banners from the rafters heralding some of the administration's top accomplishments, such as a record-low number of homicides (419) in 2012.
Also included is courtesy chauffeured transportation within 14 miles, which is a great extra since many of the top local attractions and even resort attractions such as private surfing lessons and guided hikes are outside the main property.
Secondly, he has not seen a single proposal -- he has not seen a single acknowledgement that a proposal is necessary or will be forthcoming from Republicans that even allows for the essential fact that rates have to go up on top earners as part of a balanced deal.
Without big trucks, Nissan still lacks credibility as a full-line, top-tier U.S. brand--even Connelly admits as much.
Even as a sideshow to the Petraeus fiasco, the Jill Kelley saga was a legitimate story, with two top generals coming under scrutiny.
The foreign-ownership rules even preclude foreigners from holding the top executive positions in American airlines in which foreign capital owns as much as a 49% stake.
But a succession of bankruptcies resulting from poor management decisions left the company in dire financial condition even as top managers awarded themselves huge bonuses.
And I've made very clear, and I'll amplify in my speech to Parliament tomorrow, that even as we make a whole host of important fiscal decisions back home, this is right up there at the top of my priority list.
If you want to avoid a mass exodus (or even the loss of a few key players) as more jobs become available, make inspiring and engaging your employees a top priority.
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