Faced with a deteriorating economy, increasing regulatory and investor complaints, and growing litigation costs and awards attributed to unhappy clients, many firms involved with these products crashed and burned.
Its sweep of the awards was attributed to its entirely new colour: bicolour flowers, with grayish white calyxes that contained mid-blue corollas just touched with white in the throat.
Points are also awarded for other attributes -- as many as 80 for a high grade-point average, and 5 for leadership qualities -- with a total score of about 100 considered necessary for admission.
That award was incorrectly attributed to Frank Deford, who won the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing.].
While Alan Smithee will probably never win an Academy Award, the films attributed to him reveal what happens when an individual's vision gets crushed by the industry.
August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey since 1996.
It's far from perfect, and won't win any awards, but has the attributes required to gain cult status in the years to come.
The obstacles, once you think about them, are seismic, given the countless ways our culture awards status to masculine attributes over feminine ones.
Randy Petersen, founder of the frequent-flier hubs InsideFlyer.com and FlyerTalk.com, said 2008 was a record year for award redemption, which he attributed to travelers using miles for more mundane trips, like visits to relatives in less exotic locales.
Commenting on the fact it has been 13 years since a grime artist was nominated and picked up the illustrious award, Adenuga refused to attribute the success of his fourth album solely to an increased recognition of grime in popular music.
Clark attributed his award to his players and assistants.
