If I provided top sirloin for your cat, for example, you would accept it.

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For 15 years, Stubbs the cat has held the top office in Talkeetna, Alaska.

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Its success has overwhelmingly been due to developing copy-cat technologies and paying top dollar to buy promising small firms.

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Holding a big conference with your group in the middle of a slope or on the cat track at the top of the slope.

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Likened earlier this year by Lord Turnbull, a former cabinet secretary (Britain's top civil servant), to Macavity the cat, who was never to be found at the scene of the crime, the prime minister will find it hard now to evade his own responsibility for what has gone wrong on Mr Darling's brief watch.

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And finally, it is well worth the gondola and sno-cat ride to the Game Creek Club on top of Vail.

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Ever since Sony's PSone popularized the concept of game consoles with an LCD screen on top, third party manufacturers have rushed to produce copy-cat devices for each and every console under the sun.

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Tigers are more tricky, but for many big cat enthusiasts, it is the experience of seeing a jaguar in its natural environment that takes the top feline spot.

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