Firms at the top pride themselves on paying market, which is why the AmLaw100 routinely marches itself off the cliff like lemmings to offer first year associates exactly the same salary.

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Newsroom staff is 20% smaller, down to 220, but none of those cuts came from layoffs--a point of pride for the top editors.

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Adria noted with pride that the four top chefs on Restaurant magazine's influential top 50 ranking this year are elBulli alumni.

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The 54-year-old dedicated the award to her family and joked that it would have pride of place at the top of her Christmas tree.

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"The Wagonmaster went out on top, " Mr. Stuart said with pride.

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Those at the top of the food chain get a new identity in which to take pride, that of the sushi-eating, Brazilian-girlfriend-having cosmopolitan.

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