The conditions races carry more prestige while handicaps are more important in terms of betting.
Meanwhile, as colleges seek more prestige and higher rankings, many are emphasizing scholarships based on high grades and test scores, not financial need.
Yet this is a race, and whoever is the first to fulfill various objectives, such as being the first to send a man into orbit or a probe to Mars, garners more prestige.
While A-list movie actors have long received more prestige and critical acclaim than their TV counterparts, television personalities greatly out-earned movie stars in 2011, thanks to heavy hitters like Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump and Simon Cowell.
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And Volvo could certainly learn more about prestige from the likes of Jaguar and Land Rover.
As Mark points out, the Russian navy, and its Mediterranean patrols, are more about prestige than actual power projection and its relationships with Syria and Iran can be useful, but only up to a certain degree.
That said, there is more than just prestige that comes with being at the top of the list: The lists generate attention for books, thus boosting sales further.
U.S. officials see a China motivated by a desire for a smooth leadership transition and more global interaction and prestige tied to its WTO entry and the coming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Several studies show that firstborns and only children usually reach higher educational goals, obtain greater prestige and acquire more net worth, while the middle child is likely to struggle a bit more.
The mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, has built a business empire in a city in which prestige and politics count for more than customers or profits.
One of those reasons, indeed perhaps the most crucial reason, is that the current higher ed model is, more or less, driven by a prestige-maximizing incentive.
For this reason, the primary value of a nuclear test is more likely to be political through enhancing the prestige of the government, attracting international attention and allowing the North to enhance its bargaining leverage in future negotiations with the United States and its allies.
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But critics say Galileo is more about the projection of European political power and prestige on the global stage, than any hard commercial benefits.
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They are a prestige brand but they could do so much more if they could sell their phones to more people.
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The Prestige has only one hull, in contrast with more modern ships, which tend to have one inside another, which makes oil spills much less likely.
Everyone wants more, bigger, or better: promotions, raises, prestige, power.
The most successful banks, like the best football clubs, manage to keep a bigger share of revenues, partly because there is so much more of it and partly because they are able to offer prestige as well as money.
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Nevada has seven more Republican delegates than South Carolina, but less party history and prestige.
The lower down they are on practically any pecking order job prestige, income, education, background the more likely people are to be fat and unfit, and to drink too much.
Deference is still accorded to them in Poland, where the term intelligentsia carries residual prestige, but their clothes are now shabbier, their collars more frayed than they were a few years ago.
There was speculation that Mark Lazarus, the new head of NBC sports, might be more interested in Comcast turning a profit on the games than in the prestige to the network of winning the bid.
Thompson suggested that prestige programming is now better left to cable and the smaller, more passionate audiences who flock there.
Prestige and acclaim are hard currency in the film business, in many ways more valuable than money.
Works by highly recognizable "brand name" artists, such as Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons or Takashi Murakami, carry a certain prestige, whether justified or not, and have the potential to become even more valuable over time.
In fact, Betteridge says, Middle Eastern women are more likely to earn the support of their families and their peers for pursuing employment in fields that carry prestige and require an education.
He has lent his name and prestige to an initiative that would, as a practical matter, make the world a much more dangerous place since our enemies will surely not follow our example if we get rid of our nuclear arsenal.
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