The Fame Academy preferred their students to be all-round performers, not merely good-looking kids capable of excelling at karaoke.

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Given their advanced skill-sets, its youth are noted for leaping on 21st century BRIC economic opportunities and excelling at white-collar vocations.

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Compartmentalize your emotions and try to focus on excelling at your job.

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Excelling at compute and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), these solutions redefine data center graphics capability while consuming 95 percent less power at idle and dramatically cutting data center operating costs(4).

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The B2B companies who are excelling at social media today commit and excel at integrating these systems together to reduce the time it takes to get customers and prospects the information they need.

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But Wilkinson insists he has not given up hope of playing, and excelling, at the highest level again and believes his best rugby is still ahead of him.

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But, over the past few years Tori Spelling has done a great job at excelling in the world of business and making a name for herself as an entrepreneur.

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Without the skills and expertise that is a result of excelling, I would never have the chance to sit at the important tables to participate in the discussions, no matter how great my social skills.

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The iPhone turns out to be a bit of conundrum, excelling and even revolutionizing certain phone functions, while utterly failing at others.

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