Volkova's rise to the pinnacle of high fashion was neither exponential nor intentional, but not wholly surprising either.
"We're at the pinnacle of high school sports in America," he says to the camera, speaking in a low twang that melds East Texas with southern Arkansas.
Their investing success along with their vaunted academic reputations led many financial experts to conclude that Harvard and its peers at the pinnacle of higher education had solved an age-old conundrum: how to generate higher returns with lower risk.
At the pinnacle of higher education are the University of Copenhagen (founded in 1479), the University of Aarhus (1928), and the University of Southern Denmark (1966), all state supported.
In describing her marathon quest to reach the pinnacle of higher education, Mrs. Eichelbaum said: "It wasn't a case of maybe.
From 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. each night, Guadalupe Herrera cleans offices at that pinnacle of high-tech success, Cisco Systems, and then she heads home to the garage where she, her husband and two sons live.
Dealers at the Armory Show could market works in a concurrent online fair, mounted by a New York company called Paddle8, which, in a press release, observed that "ownership of fine art approaches the pinnacle of high-net-worth aspiration worldwide".
MUMBAI, India -- Two years ago, when the crisis on Wall Street reached its pinnacle, the high-flying Indian stock market fell with a thud as foreign investors took nearly $5 billion out of the country.
That such a world can be corrupt, and can even perhaps be the enemy of true art, is an old argument, going back at least to the 1920s, when Wyndham Lewis labeled Diaghilev's Ballets Russes the pinnacle of high-bohemian self-indulgence, with its "glittering, highly intellectualist surface" and "deep, sagacious, rich though bleak sensuality".
