But some people are not surprised the city is benefiting from the club's elevation to the top flight.

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Also, the pressure at the bottom will be lower than the pressure at the top as pressure decreases with increasing elevation.

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Corvara is situated at the highest elevation in the area, on top of what is essentially a massive boulder.

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What about the elevation of veteran Citi executive Michael Corbat to the top spot?

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Top shareholders are Bessemer Venture Partners with 22.5%, Elevation Partners (which is an investor in FORBES) with 22.4%, Benchmark Capital with 16.2% and Max Levchin with 13.8% and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman with 11.1%.

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Kaymer's runaway victory and elevation to world number two means that with Lee Westwood - who finished a lowly 64th - in top spot, Europeans hold the top two positions in the rankings for the first time since Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer in 1993.

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