(Five institutions earned top grades).
Ms. Kern has earned top prizes in many international competitions.
This year, he earned top honors and $500.
The beer has earned top honors, including at a recent tasting competition in Seattle.
His "When The Sun Goes Down" also earned top album honors.
For those restaurants that earned top marks, a good grade can translate into more business, Mr. Bloomberg said.
As hip-hop evolved, m.c.s earned top billing over d.j.s, and rappers became poets of urban struggle.
They were the undisputed stars of Jefferson High School, where they played on the tennis team, earned top grades and skipped 10th grade.
But his popularity was evident in April, when he earned top marks in a poll of senior officers, according to a party intellectual close to him.
This week three Dodge models earned top scores in J. D. Powers's annual appeal survey to tie with BMW for the most awards.
When he received the results of his first exams, he discovered that he had earned top grades in nearly every class.
