"It's the difference between an A and an A-plus, " he was quoted as saying by AP news agency.
And he's worked hard over the years to become the only Senate Democrat with an A-plus rating from the National Rifle Association.
That is what the UK's chancellor and central bank governor told us at the Mansion House yesterday, as they unveiled their plan A-plus.
"Because there are only so many A-plus waterfront locations available, the price pressure on these high-end properties continues to go up, " he explains.
Would these type A-plus overachievers -- so focused on realizing their lifelong dream of spaceflight -- really risk it all for one last tall boy after last call?
The bottom line is that Alistair Darling, of all people, may have provided Mr Osborne with the wiggle room that he needs to announce a Plan A-plus which leaves his iron credentials intact - at least on paper.
"Tim Bradley, in almost every respect is a B-plus fighter but he has A-plus determination that makes him special, " said Max Kellerman, a CNN contributor and an analyst for HBO, which like CNN is owned by Time Warner.
It said that if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're five or six-years old and you had become an A-plus student, you'd completed the core curriculum, you were an exceptional student, and you also had to be drug and alcohol-free -- and the other provision, you had to be applying for citizenship.
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The redevelopment will include a new club megastore, museum, cafe, a family information centre, pitch-facing hospitality facilities, including a 500-plus capacity room, and a larger accessible lounge for disabled supporters.
There was a meeting with a number of other countries - a G7 plus Mexico - and they're coming over to London for a conference in March.
But a lot of the rebuilding effort that was intended, and some of the new structures and new condo buildings - Donald Trump had intended to build almost a hundred-plus- story condo development down here in New Orleans, and it has been scaled back a couple of times.
In that climate of uncertainty the U.S. Agency for International Development opted for a cost-plus, fixed-fee deal--a contract often used by governments to exert some control over costs and give the contractor incentive to engage in open-ended work.
The initiative seemed harmless: it can only place an idea on the agenda, not actually oblige the commission to do anything (nothing came from a million-plus signatures on a petition calling for an end to the parliament's monthly meandering from Brussels to Strasbourg).
The duo had chosen "Juno, " after the Roman goddess, but got hit with a cease-and-desist letter from a plus-size women's clothing outfit of the same name.
Nothing worked--nor did her experiments over a decade-plus at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute.
The A-OV Plus switches things up to a 4:3 aspect and adds an optical viewfinder to the mix.
I'm asymptomatic, nothing shows externally with respect to that, but it does raise the possibility that I may need to have implanted sort of -- I think of it as a pacemaker-plus.
The CRWG had, in the interval, conducted the survey of some 400, 000 servicemen and women, held scores of townhall-style meetings around the world and compiled a 300-plus page report.
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Salnoske is the first of the CIO-pluses profiled herein who joined his company as a CIO-plus.
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While binge-drinking rates have fallen among boys over the past 10 years, "binge-drinking rates among girls really haven't changed much over a 15-plus-year period, " said Dr. Robert Brewer, of the alcohol program division of the CDC's national Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
The fact that it was a strike from Tevez - plus a penalty from Wigan's Sheffield United old boy David Unsworth - which sent the Blades back into the Championship after only one season in the top flight only added a dash of irony to the last-day drama.
The Yankees need a right-handed outfielder, plus a left-handed designated hitter.
This XKR-S is still, after all, a 2-ton two-plus-two coupe with a big engine up front and a six-speed automatic transmission.
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President Lula Da Silva surprised the world, when despite having a left-wing background plus having been a co-founder along with Fidel Castro of the anti-American Foro de Sao Paulo, appointed conservative figures to his cabinet.
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Participants can enjoy a leisurely late-afternoon ride along the fjord's edge and into the surrounding hills, followed by a soak in the guesthouse's hot-pot plus a two-course dinner in the pretty onsite restaurant.
Often he would take that single strike and send it on a 400-plus-foot trip.
Now, after a year-plus of speculation, the government has had its chance to weigh in.
Meanwhile, demand for residential properties will be hottest in Russian cities with populations of a million-plus.
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