He received the Silver Star, the third highest award for valor in combat.
When Sean Penn and Kate Winslet won their Oscars, they joined the exalted club of actors who have received the industry's highest award.
Chirac paid tribute to the veterans and presented France's highest award, the Legion D'Honneur, to representatives of the fighting men of 14 allied nations.
Earlier this year Mike Picknett, of Redcar, received the RNLI's highest award for risking his life trying to rescue an angler from rough seas.
Mr Lascelles was also presented with the Thanks of the Institution, the fourth highest award given by the charity, for his bravery in performing the rescue.
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Chester Nimitz presented Finn with the Medal of Honor for his bravery, joining the ranks of the men, and one woman, recognized with the nation's highest award for heroism.
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Last year, at 99.7%, he had one of the highest award rates in the country, and is on pace to award even more benefits in 2011, according to agency statistics.
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For his efforts leading the Munich Security Conference, von Kleist was awarded the U.S. Department of Defense's Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1991, its highest award for a civilian.
On June 16, 2006, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne presented him with the USAF Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service--the highest award that the Air Force can present to a civilian.
My brother received the highest award!
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The 328i won the IntelliChoice 2007 Highest Retained Value Award for the Near Luxury category.
Most of those present received the Queen's Scout Award, the highest honour a scout can achieve.
The Freedom of the Borough is the highest accolade the council can award a citizen.
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He also received the Diamond Dagger award, the highest honor of the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain, in 1990.
The award is the highest honour awarded to those that have influenced American culture through the arts, with actress Meryl Streep, singer Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey among past recipients.
U.S. Bancorp and its employees are dedicated to improving the communities they serve, for which the company earned the 2011 Spirit of America Award, the highest honor bestowed on a company by United Way.
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John Fitzgibbon, IPO Scoop president, said he didn't award Facebook the highest rating because such a rating is reserved for deals that have the potential to double their offering prices in the first day of trading.
Helena Bonham Carter, star of A Room with a View, Sweeney Todd and the Harry Potter films, will receive the Circle's highest honour, the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence, at this year's event.
He twice won a John Marshall Award, one of the highest honors in the department.
The list of winners of the 2012 Top Safety Pick award for vehicles with the highest levels of crash protection is longer than ever this year.
Sunny Varkey himself has been honoured by the Government of India for his contributions to Education with the Padmashri Award, one of the highest civilian honours of the country.
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She is the recipient of many government honors, including the Distinguished Public Service Award, the Coast Guard's highest medal awarded to a civilian.
Our Five-Star award was established in 1960 and remains the highest service accolade in the industry.
The select group of hotels, restaurants and spas that achieve the highest marks earns the Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star award.
That 2006 film became one of the highest-grossing documentaries in history, and won the Academy Award for best documentary.
For example, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community dealing with an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease deaths in the nation, the award will help 1, 600 physicians and other providers participate in a new community-wide health information system that will help them better monitor and improve care transitions as patients move from one care setting to another.
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And he announced he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski, an officer in the Polish underground during World War II, who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust.
He is a co-author of three books on teams, including the best-selling, Self-Directed Work Teams: The New American Challenge In 2011 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Training and Development, their highest recognition for contributions to the workforce learning and development profession.
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