All-round excellence surely betokens quality, even if other films may be judged to be superior in the individual categories.

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First, tech companies are places where people with strong opinions and even stronger beliefs in their own universal excellence go to work.

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And even some BC administrators would rather credit educational excellence than a gridiron miracle for its popularity among high-school graduates.

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American universities continue to enjoy a world-wide reputation for academic excellence and cutting-edge research, even if there's room for improvement.

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The dream of being a writer and the price one has to pay for excellence are impossible to demonstrate or, really, even to fathom.

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The Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) report points out that even though targeted advertising is one of the forms of online advertising expected to grow most rapidly, only a few of the top news sites use it.

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Without leadership, even talented and respected workers may not have the overall structure needed to sustain excellence.

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One final mark of excellence is the fact that their meat is never once frozen, not even for shipping.

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So he focused on getting the 1979 Porsche that had come from a California prop house, even calling in a private investigator to help find its subsequent owner, as the Excellence article recounts.

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This proves that there is no hotel that could not be even better, and these ten are examples of money well spent in the pursuit of lodging excellence.

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