Perhaps the most conspicuous name on the latest list is Charles Polk of Mountain State University in Beckley, W. Va., at No. 6, who earned $1.84 million in 2009.
Originally only the brightest stars and most conspicuous patterns were given names, probably based on the actual appearance of the configurations.
It's a testament to his achievement that the book's most conspicuous fault is the name "Morey" itself, with its morally tinged suggestion of "more" and "money" and "moray".
The most conspicuous landmark to bear von Braun's name — presumably to the delight of Mort Sahl — is a crater, at the western rim of the moon's Oceanus Procellarum.
The characters are mainly middle-aged rich people in show business, the most conspicuous of whom is a former TV producer named Larry David.
But the most conspicuous and far-reaching of his contributions is the rule that bears his name, adopted in 2003, requiring that at least one minority candidate be interviewed for coaching positions.
Iraq's security forces are the most conspicuous example of the tension between politics and violence in Basra, and the aptly named Serious Crimes Unit of the Basra Police is perhaps the most egregious example.
The name refers to the loss of the paraglossae, one of the most conspicuous apomorphies of the group (see below and Table 4).
In the name of "anti-racism," therefore, Dieu-donné and his allies demean the most conspicuous advocates, and beneficiaries, of a multicultural, progressive, and democratic civic culture.
Squirrel (family Sciuridae), generally, any of the 50 genera and 268 species of rodents whose common name is derived from the Greek skiouros, meaning "shade tail," which describes one of the most conspicuous and recognizable features of these small mammals.
The most conspicuous winners are legal immigrants.
