Nearly every country at one point was on top of the heap, and all have rich heritages.
If we accept that interpretation, Apple was easily on top of the heap during the fourth quarter.
Chronologically, Apple is long in the tooth at the top of the heap.
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For the second consecutive year, Apple is at the top of the heap.
Hed spent half a lifetime in the bruising business of book publishing -- much of it at the top of the heap.
Oracle, the multinational tech giant, is at the top of the heap.
At the top of the heap is the weekly February 21 strike, where 636 contracts have traded on open interest of 75 contracts.
Others that land toward the top of the heap include German-based automakers Daimler and Volkswagen, which earned global scores of 79.03 and 77.33, respectively.
These qualities put the Nomad line at the top of the heap in the race to be the best gaming laptop 2012 has seen.
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"You don't make it to the top of the heap by going out like Rocky and just throwing punches at each other, " said the 30-year-old computer software engineer.
At the top of the heap is San Jose, Calif.
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Louisville is at the top of the heap financially.
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At the top of the heap, it is announced, are to be the self-satisfied priests, the Brahmins, who will be the only ones allowed the privilege of reading, writing, and making laws.
On the minus side, those already on top of the heap have the means to shape the agenda through their control of media outlets and the backing of politicians sensitive to their needs.
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In one fell move, Rudolph goes from the bottom of the pile to the top of the heap, from being a teased and ridiculed outcast to having a lock on the most coveted and prestigious job on the toy delivery team.
It's not just the flood, because certainly there's that sort of deluge of information all over, but really, the point here was the National Counterterrorism Center was set up specifically to be at the top of the heap, the best of the bunch.
Overall, the group feels that AMD has at least closed the gap a bit on Intel's Core juggernaut with a much better FX offering this time around, but overall the desktop CPU landscape remains unchanged -- with Intel still firmly at the top of the heap.
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By virtue of Hillary's role in the most important investigation in Washington since the Army-McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, she was now at the top of the heap of America's young, public-service-minded lawyers, with an undimmed opportunity (or so Ehrman thought) to take a seat at any of Washington's or New York's top law firms, leading to a partnership.
Buenos Aires is famous for having the best collection of steakhouses on earth, and this is near the top of the heap, the only one specializing in selling beef from a variety of Argentinean breeds, combing all the traditional elements of Argentinean parillada cooking over a wood burning fire with more upscale touches and a wonderful list of the best wines of Argentina.
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Novartis, the Basel, Switzerland-based maker of branded prescription medicines, had recently usurped Teva's place at the top of the generic heap with the acquisitions of Hexal and Eon.
Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ), the Basel, Switzerland-based maker of branded prescription medicines, had recently usurped Teva's place at the top of the generic heap with the acquisitions of Hexal and Eon.
These irksome cases are just at the top of the spending heap (along with aid to Israel, as part of the Egyptian bargain).
Still beloved among its legions of dedicated gamers, Sony has some work to do if it is to leapfrog back to the top of the gaming heap.
To be top of the social heap, it is not enough to have fine things.
Going slow will propel you to the top of the performance heap.
And while Achatz is on top now, eventually even he will slow down only to have an aggressive, extremely hard working newcomer take his place at the top of the restaurant heap.
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Breyer famously put his firm Accel Partners on top of the of the venture capital heap with the investment in Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg.
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Coleman, 37, shot to the top of the hedge fund heap his Tiger Global beat nearly all other hedge funds in 2011 with a 45 percent return.
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It has regained its number-one position advising companies on mergers this year, according to Bloomberg, and the firm has also climbed back to the top of the Wall Street heap in managing equity and equity-linked offerings.
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