No one, however, goes over the top like the Russians, the "oligarch-yachtsmen, " as the author calls them.
It's a huge towering dark cloud, shaped at the top like a blacksmith's anvil, and responsible for sudden downpours.
Before the door is a columnar porch with octagonal columns, in one bay of which is a broad stele a monolithic carved stone with a peaked top like a gable.
"Anytime we do a best and worst city ranking and a city comes in at the very top like this, it immediately says to us they were consistently strong across the board in pretty much all of the 38 criteria that we looked at, " Men's Health Executive Editor Matt Marion said.
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"If you're 90% then you shouldn't play because the difference between being top 10 like Andy is and top 80 or 100 is maybe 5%, " said the American.
The First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy fund is more weighted towards turbine manufactures and, like PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio, contains top producers like Vestas (VTR) and Gamesa (GCTAF).
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So we reached out to senior leaders at top companies like Kraft, Dell and Unilever to nominate top development marketers, and within days the class was full at 35.
Sure, there have been experiments in interactive TV -- gadgets like WebTV and modern game consoles are connected devices, and set-top boxes like the Roku and TiVo add connected components -- but most TVs in the US remain blissfully ignorant of the internet.
But in China this is a national craze, and rabid fans treat top players like stars.
Our challenge in the conservation community is to make a top issue like the economy.
The customer list includes top operators like Box.net, Dell (Nasdaq:DELL), Informatica (Nasdaq:INFA) and Qualcomm (Nasdaq:QCOM).
Spotify is turning a product into a service, which has been the case with top companies like Netflix (Nasdaq:NFLX).
But top prospects like SportsLine are clearly getting lumped with third-stringers these days.
So with GoodData, you can create dashboards for many top apps like Marketo, Google Spreadsheets and Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM).
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And top brands like Huggies, Southwest Airlines and Hasbro are using signup ads to keep users engaged within the app.
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The bulk of the profit comes from the top companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Motors and Tata Steel.
Meanwhile, top stars like Don Mattingly, Mike Piazza and John Smotlz have been plucked from the bottom rungs of the draft.
During better economic times, these appropriations helped make top schools like UC Berkeley affordable to students regardless of their family income levels.
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There is the battle to win the Premier League, where top clubs like Manchester United and Manchester City are battling for supremacy.
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The founder sold out of the company in 1996, leaving it in the charge of the top executives like Lau and Chan.
As we noted earlier this week, in a market downturn, one of the best investing strategies is to continue tracking top performers like these.
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Clad in a black coat and top hat like that worn by Philippine national hero Jose Rizal, he stormed into Manila Cathedral during a mass.
Why are top companies like Google and Facebook huge NetApp customers?
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Places at top schools like Insead and HEC Paris are in record demand, while applicant numbers at Esade in Spain are up 56% over last year.
The recovery may not seem quite as strong outside top schools like Stern, but it still appears to be a reality across the business education spectrum.
And I have every confidence that America in the 21st century is going to be able to come out on top just like we always have.
As top prospects like Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler and Travis d'Arnaud start producing in the majors, the team will eventually need to make a financial splash.
Even top closers like Mariano Rivera and Jonathan Papelbon have consistently put up better career stats in save situations than in non-save situations over the years.
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Melland says Pittsburgh has had to work to keep graduates from top schools like Carnegie Mellon from decamping to other cities, so companies there have hiked pay.
All the more reason, says Lemont, to join up and mirror a top trader like the one who gained 460% over the same time period (see chart below).
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