Ivan Drury, a senior analyst at Edmunds, points out the arrival of the four-door Mini Countryman kind of a station wagon, but one with a lot of prestige.
For Chinese companies there is a certain prestige that comes with listing on a U.S. exchange, and Wall Street certainly has the incentive to keep serving up as much product as they can with investors clamoring for a piece of the well-documented emerging market growth story.
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In a non-competitive situation, subjects chose a leader with lots of prestige, who gave the most chips to the group.
Perhaps the growth in the military budget reflects China's growing wealth and prestige, along with a desire to protect its rising shipments of oil and other commodities: the country seems bent on building a blue-water navy.
While the tournament doesn't carry with it the same prestige as a World Cup, it is essentially a trial run of the main event for the host nation, and for the lower-ranked countries involved it offers invaluable experience playing against the world's best.
To Dr Mahathir's fury, the book makes clear that progress has also entailed a succession of grotesque national financial scandals, huge wastage on prestige projects and a political system flooded with dirty money.
It meant a comfortable gig with good pay, prestige, the opportunity to mix with the great and good of business, politics and academia and, perhaps best of all, the kind of job security enjoyed now only by popes.
In the old days a state's flagship university, with its law and liberal arts schools and alumni networks, carried a higher prestige than the ag or tech school.
Instead, along with the silver bowl, the Garden champion earns a lifetime of prestige, plus lucrative breeding fees for its owners.
He is a skilled fixer, and has enhanced his prestige with various interest-groups since taking office by stepping in and resolving several seemingly intractable conflicts.
After all, while the challenger may be trying to sell us on the idea that he or she could do a better job, the President shows up with all the prestige and presence reserved to the most powerful elected official in the nation.
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But for Russia, the relationship with America is a vehicle not for anything specific but mainly for global prestige and relevance.
However, in terms of design complexity, brand prestige, and price, working with Audemars Piguet is a step up for the Formula 1 legend.
This rise in prestige has been mirrored by a revamp of undergraduate business programs, with the top ones increasingly resembling MBAs thanks to an emphasis on the rigorous study of economics, statistics and accounting and MBA-like teaching methods using case studies and team exercises.
To see how important national reach has been for the Times, one need only contrast its fortunes with those of the Washington Post, a paper that once challenged the Times in influence and prestige but is now much diminished.
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Nova Southeastern may not match up with Harvard or Yale when it comes to history and prestige, but the law school is trying to make up for its lack of pedigree with a technology focus.
Located on the 23rd floor of The Palazzo, Prestige is offering guests an open bar, light bites and a champagne toast at midnight along with a live band.
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Nor is there an army such as in Egypt, with the prestige and unity to intervene, restore calm and (we all hope) set the country on a better path.
Match fixing has always been a problem in sport, often because someone powerful wants a particular outcome for reasons of personal pride and prestige (prior to the 1934 World Cup Final in Rome Benito Mussolini arranged for a personal interview with the referee, which might conceivably have had some impact on the outcome of the game).
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