"It's not only directly important in terms of Goldman's prestige and number of employees, but it's also a signal to others to consider building on the World Trade Center site and elsewhere in Lower Manhattan".
But though Mr. McGrath and counterparts in other cities are armed with studies projecting a boom in travelers, hotel occupancy, restaurant spending and prestige, a number of economists say they are fighting for a larger share of what is essentially a shrinking industry.
Despite the university largely failing to gain recognition and prestige, a number of other colleges had opened by the end of the nineteenth century.
Their strength, they say, comes from their journals' prestige, not the number of journals that they own.
A DECADE ago the standard measurement of an executive MBA programme's prestige was the number of times it required participants to cross an ocean.
Beardsley believes that the prestige of the number seven shirt and the legendary names that have worn it will show Suarez what he means to the club.
Another state characteristic that correlates with developers' prestige is the number of higher education institutions.
These rankings have certainly serious impacts on universities' prestige and the number and quality of applicants, among other factors.
Our fifth hypotheses does a similar test by focusing on the association between network prestige and the number of people developers follow: H5.
The question is whether the council ought to have shelved the building once the recession started (and certainly once the Tories got anywhere near power), or whether it needed to push ahead for the obvious press, prestige and tourist numbers it would attract.
