Nevertheless, the U.S. was often near the top of the class in global tests of academic achievement.
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It is top of the class in some of the wholesale businesses, such as foreign exchange, securities lending and global custody.
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Among groups leveraging online communities the most, education came in at the top of the class, comprising 11 percent of all social communities, according to the recent Ning survey.
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Barcelona remains near the top of the class.
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Meanwhile, university officials in California voted earlier this month to overhaul their current admissions system, which guarantees a student a place at a UC campus if he ranks in the top 4% of his high-school class or in the top 12.5% of the graduating class statewide.
Ms. Malcorra had worked hard to move herself from the working class neighborhood where she grew up, graduating among the top of her class (and as the only woman) of electrical engineers at the University of Rosario, followed by a successful 15-year career at IBM.
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Since 83% of the students accepted to the class of 2014 ranked in the top 10% of their class, finding qualified applicants was easy.
If parents are given the freedom to choose the schools that work best for their children and teachers are given the freedom to teach in ways they know work, our kids will vault to the top of the global class.
Those at the top of the Klout class, whose high scores for Twittering, Facebooking, and social networking show a demonstrated ability to win over friends and influence people, get invited to exclusive parties and showered with promotions by companies hoping to benefit from a positive tweet about their product or company.
Mr Romney was the archetype of this new breed: he graduated in the top 5% of his class at the Harvard Business School.
The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.
With the support of family, friends and teachers, Sonia earned scholarships to Princeton, where she graduated at the top of her class, and Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, stepping onto the path that led her here today.
But unless you want to be made to feel like you're top of the Bad Parent Class, trips out are the order of the day.
In other words, the Farmville developers of the world deserve their share of the credit for hoisting Facebook to the top of its class.
In the 2007--08 year 57% of the students enrolled were in the top quarter of their high school class, up from 54% the year before.
He grew up in Jodhpur, in the desert state of Rajasthan, where both his parents were college professors, and was at the top of his class in high school.
Scot Alister McRae is on the verge of a home victory in the production class which would put him top of the title race.
The 14-year-old top-of-the-class student, who loved watching cartoons and dreamed of becoming a doctor, had stepped out for a game of cricket.
In 1997, the Texas legislature instituted the Top Ten Percent Law granting students in the top ten percent of their class automatic admission to any state university.
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But he hopes that the 'Linford Christie' affect may be felt and a new generation of hurdlers come through as we now have an era of top-class sprinters with the likes of Dwain Chambers, Mark Lewis-Francis, Christian Malcolm and Darren Campbell.
But not every young black American wants to be an athlete and presumably one of the main reasons for the falling numbers of top-class African-American boxers isn't that they're linemen or running backs in the NFL, or centres in the NBA. Rather, it's because they've taken Ali at his word.
Democrats also typically seek a growth strategy that boosts the incomes of the middle class, not just of the top 1%.
Later, after graduating from Harvard Business School in the top 5% of his class in 1961, he went into the family business.
With no Britons competing in the top class this season, the main focus of interest for British fans will be the 125cc class, where 19-year-old Bradley Smith starts the season as favourite for the title, having finished runner-up last season.
The internet has lots of legal sites like this, which promise thousands of top-class titles but in truth resemble the worst shelves of a bad video-rental store.
He was a good student, but he wasn't at the top of his class.
In 1975, he graduated near the top of his class from Venezuela's military academy.
The Sandberg children attended public school, and Sheryl was always at the top of her class.
She graduated near the top of her class, with a degree in systems engineering.
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