Some state governments are starting to support such works; many politicians still find big, prestige schemes more profitable.The second big need of the semi-arido is decent education.
Two of North Korea's biggest prestige projects in recent years have been the Masikryong ski resort and the 'tourist city' of Wonsan, and representatives promoting the country have begun to make themselves known on the world's travel forum circuit.
Some of the big prestige developments – such as the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa – have been completed or are still in progress but the bread-and-butter projects of the construction industry have been shut down.
As Hollywood hardened into the formal structures of the studio system, and film-making became a much more lucrative industry, those distinctions made themselves felt, and the biggest prestige on set was reserved for the director, the person literally calling the shots.
The winning bid is given to charity, so it's a big prestige thing among the benevolent super-rich.
It's a big prestige thing for those guys.
Would it have killed one of these big prestige films to have taken a "J.
Everybody wants to keep their Security Clearance, it's worth great prestige and big dollars, even board seats, and that is why certain people are coming forward to protect Brennan.
Patriotic critics railed against Rank's appetite for backing big-budget prestige movies at the expense of lower-budgeted British films that could have recouped their costs in the domestic market.
(Criterion, two discs, Jan . 13 $39.95) STEPHANIE ZACHAREK The Films of Budd Boetticher (1957-60) late-1950s950s westerns of Budd Boetticher are shoestring masterpieces that put the idea of flashy, big-budget, prestige filmmaking to shame.
