Watches like the Stranger are often technically challenging, proof-of-concept pieces for an elite group of collectors.
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Another measure, she says, is a program built around an elite group of neighborhood leaders.
Like Akbank, an elite group of companies is also offering detailed disclosure of their environmental performance records.
The Hedge Fund Wisdom newsletter reveals the portfolios of an elite group of hedge fund managers and legendary investors.
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He was captured Wednesday morning by an elite group of police in the department of Antioquia, in northwest Colombia, police said.
Imagine that the survival of America depended on a handful of fighting machines operated by an elite group of military personnel.
Both are among an elite group of multinationals that have received no-bid contracts to aid rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf region.
Campbell was head of a health care task force of the Business Roundtable, an elite group of corporate leaders that sponsored Leapfrog.
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He was a Mayfield Fellow at Stanford, an elite group of 12 top engineering students, who went to work at BCG following graduation.
With the announcement today of the 55th-annual Forbes Travel Guide Star Award winners, an elite group of properties have earned the highest distinction.
An elite group of soldiers, scientists and engineers from all over the globe is tasked with repelling the aliens and restoring peace to our planet.
Despite joining an elite group of NBA players who have been named MVP three times, James said his real goal is to win a championship.
First, why would an elite group of overworked analysts bother to attend a meeting at which a reasonable person would not learn anything he was likely to want to know?
But LinkedIn makes much of its money by charging an elite group of corporate recruiters big money for the right to sift through member profiles, hunting for great candidates to hire.
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LinkedIn, like Bloomberg, is all about work. (No cat photos.) And LinkedIn makes much of its money by letting an elite group of customers buy high-powered access to its data, just as Bloomberg does.
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An elite group of Anons, if you prefer.
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"We employ 99, 000 people around the globe, and in the past year, 79% of our workers and 97% of our executives volunteered, putting us in an elite group of companies of our size, " she says.
Blodget--along with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Michael Parekh of Goldman Sachs and Keith Benjamin of BancBoston Robertson Stephens--is a member of an elite group of Wall Street Internet pundits who have the power to decide which net-stock is worthy of investors' money.
The airline and Internet moguls join an elite new group of deep ocean pioneers that includes Avatar director James Cameron.
Participants saw this as a great opportunity to see how their ideas compared to others in an elite peer group.
However, John Dunford, general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, has expressed concern over the creation of an "elite group" among pupils.
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The list of those invited to join is highly selective, and admission affords a level of exclusivity highly sought after even by an already elite group.
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His continuing influence was also apparent in his ongoing membership of the Bilderberg group, an elite collection of Western thinkers and powerbrokers who meet annually to discuss global issues.
Still, the share prices of this elite group are up an average of 26% over the last 12 months, compared with a drop of 59% for the Nasdaq index.
Within that small group is an even more elite subset: women who built their fortunes rather than inherited them.
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The first time I interviewed writer Lev Grossman I had just finished reading his excellent fantasy novel, The Magicians, the story of a group of teenage students at Brakebills, an elite private school for magicians.
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The pair join an elite list of those already given the accolade, including rock group U2, Mother Teresa and former American president Bill Clinton.
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Both were members of the bureau's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from a kidnapper in an underground bunker.
Also realizing Tesla IPO windfalls are the elite of Silicon Valley venture capital: the Westly Group (whose principal, Steve Westly, is an Obama campaign bundler), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
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