And that requires excellence in design and IP first and foremost, and then remarkable prowess is purchasing, logistics, manufacturing, and operations.

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MPs also concluded the bundling together of train manufacture and financing in large procurement exercises would skew the market towards larger multinational firms, possibly at the expense of excellence in train design and domestic manufacturing.

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The awards seek to recognise and reward excellence and innovation in house building, master-planning, and housing design in Scotland.

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With close to five decades' accumulated acoustic and design excellence behind it, P3 represents a new high in affordable mobile headphone performance.

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Equal in excellence to the 264-seat main theater but presenting a striking design contrast, this secondary screening room has a hot pink entrance and features exposed loudspeakers and a grey, perforated acoustical wall and ceiling surface, making it more of an exposed machine for the moving image.

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Also among the modern watches on sale is the Opus 6 (left), an art piece in white gold which combines stunning design with cutting-edge technical excellence.

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And that's why our administration has initiated something called Race to the Top, where my Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has helped to design a competition among states so that they can foster the kinds of excellence in learning everywhere.

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The study confirms that the new curriculum for excellence is unusual in that individual schools have immense freedom, deciding on what subjects they teach, course content and design.

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