The purpose of all this aquiline activity was to draw attention to Roger Dubuis's redesigned Excalibur collection, and the exclusive quality hallmark that distinguishes all of the watchmaker's timepieces.
Finally, Cadillac took out nearly every standard issue GM-grade material in the cockpit and replaced it with a more exclusive quality of fabric.
This exclusive quality also extends to the architectural works Alexander cites as examples of good design which are drawn almost entirely from either Medieval Europe or his own work (Kalb 2014), the latter of which is said to resemble "the hodgepodge stone, half-timber, and clapboard houses of southern England, where he grew up" (Kohn 2002, p 34).
Ballet has a "perceived exclusive quality... conferring on its participants the gloss of something 'high class.'" She describes a mid-1990s documentary in which a fundraiser for London's Royal Opera House called elitism "one of [her] biggest selling points".
Believing that a limited release would position the film both as an "exclusive quality picture" and increase its chances of winning Academy Awards, Columbia dictated that its first weekend involve only seventy cinemas in the US; it opened in eleventh place in terms of box office takings and earned $721,341.
Second, from a learning theoretical point of view, "simultaneous" exposure to a certain quality and a mutually exclusive quality (e.g., normal and abnormal) is considered highly conducive to perceptual learning (Marton and Pang, 2006).
The retailer is also introducing more exclusive, higher quality products in an attempt to encourage shoppers to buy more at full price.
"Our decision not to extend the agreement for Disney output past that time allows us the opportunity to implement our plan to dramatically ramp up our investment in exclusive, premium-quality original series, which will best meet the needs of our distributors and subscribers," the company said in the statement.
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