High tuition levels are often viewed as a sign of prestige or quality by the industry, according to Mr. Tamanaha.
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 the old days a state's flagship university, with its law and liberal arts schools and alumni networks, carried a higher prestige than the ag or tech school.
With many of them being start-ups or mom-and-pop operations, the prestige of winning gets them increased visibility, orders in time for the holidays and, often, funding.
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The MBA has not lost its prestige or its attractiveness as a place for potential future fellow executives to network.
The prestige of David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy or Angela Merkel rests in part on their personal dealings with the American president.
Yet, however cautious the site launch, the Internet will never create the same illusion of prestige as a physical store or a live catwalk.
Nova Southeastern may not match up with Harvard or Yale when it comes to history and prestige, but the law school is trying to make up for its lack of pedigree with a technology focus.
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.
Influence means the power to affect people or events, especially when that power is based on prestige.
Whether driven by media revenue, prestige in affiliation, or BCS-qualification status, conference reshuffling ruled the day for much of the summer and fall of 2010.
For the superrich, money can represent power, prestige, influence--or a certain measure of immortality, if it is ultimately used to finance some visible endeavor like finding a cure for cancer.
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.
And whereas other states' research agencies have such guarantees routinely ignored, Fapesp's growing prestige over the years has made it increasingly hard for local politicians to interfere or pinch its money.
But neither are we obliged, by self-interest or self-respect, to be played by every extortionist who comes our way, seeking the prestige of our company and the things we have to offer in exchange for being kept safe from harm.
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Another theory suggests that Kael changed the rules of criticism, setting up a new way of evaluating popular art, without concern for prestige or self-conscious sophistication: in her view, a freshly entertaining or arresting movie was successful, and a movie that seemed tired or required unpacking was a flop.
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