But below the level of the brightest stars, there is a survival strategy at work.
Beyond any doubt, the brightest stars to emerge from the Finnish folk scene are the female-led Varttina.
"Whether we won or lost, he was always one of the brightest stars on the team, " he said.
In Danny McGuire, Richie Mathers and Ryan Bailey, they possess three of the brightest stars in the British game.
Gaia will detail the precise position, distance, movement, and composition of the brightest stars in the sky (out as far as the next galaxies such as Andromeda).
As the glamorous wife of Joe Philips, one of the brightest stars of the 1936 Indian Olympic gold-medal team, she has experienced the highs the sport offers.
The award, which has been around for more than 65 years, has been given to the brightest stars in conservation, including Rachel Carson, Ted Turner and Robert Redford.
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Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship: The center offers Middlebury students a wide range of learning opportunities, including an annual symposium featuring the brightest stars of social entrepreneurship, summer grants, multi-year fellowships, and the MLab, a weekly discussion for students learning about the challenges of social change leadership.
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Within the fraternity of test pilots, however, Armstrong was among the brightest of stars.
The brightest young stars in the music business.
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He described the partnership of Alonso, one of the sport's brightest young stars, and the highly experienced Fisichella as being "perfectly balanced".
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And in between the brightest and darkest stars of the BDC sector you find Apollo Investment Corp. ( AINV).
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In the late '70s and early '80s, Coleman was one of television's brightest stars, the personality around which NBC's "Strokes" -- the story of two inner-city children who are taken in by a wealthy businessman, his daughter and their housekeeper -- was built.
Scott and Zelda were, after all, the rock stars of their day the most beautiful and brightest people in the room, at least for a time.
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"This gathering of baseball's brightest stars will be an outstanding platform to grow the game internationally, " said Commissioner Bud Selig of a tournament that will in fact include such top names as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza.
We call these stars supergiants and they are 20 times more massive than our own sun and so when these stars go supernova they expand to a radius of up to a billion miles, becoming the biggest and brightest star in the universe.
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