When an Icelandic volcano grounded planes from Europe two years ago, many top European runners missed out on the Boston Marathon, as prestigious a running event as the New York race.
Now the results changed spectacularly: The companies with CEOs from a prestigious university who were black received the exact same valuation as companies with CEOs from a prestigious university who were white.
The Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award is a prestigious honor and a testament to a great performance on a global stage.
Her fellow entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, was committed enough to pursue her idea that she left a good position with a prestigious company, a move that displeased her parents.
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Is it just a coincidence that this independent counsel accepted a prestigious job at a university funded by one of the president's most persistent and vocal critic, Richard Mellon Scaife?
Like Austin, Raleigh is close to a prestigious state university and a profusion of high-tech jobs in the Research Triangle area.
In 2004 a prestigious medical journal published a report claiming that a smoking ban imposed in the city of Helena, Montana, appeared to have resulted in a more-or-less immediate 40% reduction in hospital admissions for acute heart attacks.
"WGA remains committed to pursuing the opportunity to acquire such a prestigious club, " said a statement.
Equally important, "Admission" asserts that landing a spot in a prestigious college (Portia is a Dartmouth graduate) does not guarantee a happy post-college life.
For the son of a shopkeeper executed by the Yugoslav Communists, getting to the rive gauche was a welcome escape from the gloom of the Balkans, and it guaranteed him a prestigious job as a professor of literature back home.
The World Heritage status is a prestigious designation and can help create a sense of national and local pride.
But why would you want to go from being a prestigious ring seller to decidedly something a bit more gritty?
Community college students who cannot transfer to a more prestigious school or secure a strong internship have a more difficult road, but not an impossible one.
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Ballmer won a scholarship to a prestigious private day school, scored a perfect 800 on his math SATs and graduated Harvard with a BA in math and economics.
Many people assume you need to be born into connections or have attended a prestigious university or have worked at a roster brand-name companies in order to get to the people hiring for plum jobs.
"Hosting such a prestigious sporting tournament will not only be a boost to the reputation of Scottish Rugby but will enhance Scotland's international profile, " she said.
How did what could be seen as a relatively garden-variety kickback scheme (albeit one allegedly conducted from the executive suite of a prestigious medical institution) end up as a RICO case in which the victim itself is named as the RICO enterprise?
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Top lot at the auctioneer Christie's' next sale is the 1982 Petrus, a wine so prestigious Gordon Ramsay named a restaurant after it.
Coming up for Benedetti is a prestigious appearance at Last Night of The Proms and a major tour of Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
MIT, along with other academic shrines, may do all this while preserving the value of what it really sells: spots in the lecture hall and dorm rooms, the chance to interact face-to-face with a prestigious faculty and like-minded students and, a golden credential, the MIT diploma.
Leon's phone call sets in motion a series of events that show David how, rather than being protected from the fears and anxieties of his daily existence by a prestigious City job, multiple maids and secretaries, and a peerless spouse, he has placed himself in a moneyed cocoon as insulating as a padded cell.
Conversely, a prestigious brand like BMW could miss the Top 10 by being a little more permissive, without endangering its high-end image in the long run.
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Pannasiha, a monk who goes by one name and teaches at a prestigious Buddhist academy in Yangon, says Myanmar cannot thrive as a collection of separate communities living side by side.
In recognition of his Grand Challenge Scholars-related and other activities, Louis has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and will be pursuing a Ph.
Going from a state school to a prestigious engineering institution, he was floored on the first day when a professor expected everyone to have already learned the material in the first six chapters of an algorithms textbook.
In April 2012, it won a prestigious sustainable tourism prize from the World Travel and Tourism Councils, following a similar Best Destination award from Responsible Travel in 2011.
The walls surrounded a three-story house in a town that houses a prestigious Pakistani military academy, leading critics to question what Pakistan -- a U.S. ally, but one where Islamic militants enjoy substantial support -- knew about who was inside.
If only there was some smart young ambitious analyst working for a prestigious journal, trained to work with that sort of data that could take a look at my findings and explain it in laymens terms.
The ultimate goal is publication in a prestigious academic journal, but that does not make it useful, or even offer a guarantee that the research findings provide much insight into the workings of business reality.
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When White moved to France in 1983 through a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for writing, he thought he was escaping this new disease, at least for a while.
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