Dr. Peter Del Tredici, director of living collections at the Arnold, says that on its home grounds Amur cork is "an extremely valuable timber tree," prized for its hard, highly figured, deep golden wood.
The fellowships are extremely competitive, and are prized for their independence and for the resources they afford the fellows.
By the time cacao got to the American Southwest, it would've been "scarce, prized, and extremely valuable," writes Blake, of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, in an e-mail.
Originally domesticated as sheepherding guard dogs in the Tibetan Plateau, these large, puffy-haired, and extremely uncooperative canines are prized by wealthy Chinese for their alleged ferociousness (one zoo even tried to pass a Tibetan Mastiff off as a lion, according to some reports).
Originally domesticated as sheepherding guard dogs in the Tibetan Plateau, these large, puffy-haired, and extremely uncooperative canines are prized by wealthy Chinese for their alleged ferociousness (one zoo even tried to pass a Tibetan Mastiff off as a lion, according to some reports).
Their prized, and still extremely well-specced RED Ones have just been completely obsoleted.
That's an extremely significant prize because, with its sovereign creditors on side, Irish investment and employment will now be more buoyant, growth will recover quicker and Ireland will return to prosperity much sooner than it otherwise would have done.
There are also many websites and blogs that offer great competitions that can win you extremely exciting prize packs.
Dull, quiet, extremely rich and publicly charitable are also prized qualities.
Yet for someone like Mr. Matthiessen, who is extremely sensitive to noise, a fourth-floor space on a quiet residential street is prized.
Derived from wormwood, an herb prized for its medicinal qualities in the past, it is dangerous in extremely high dosages, known to cause convulsions in laboratory animals.
