After seven years trying to make it as a video artist and photographer in New York City, working at galleries to pay the bills, Moreau felt hopeless about his future in a world that seemed closed to those without independent wealth and prestigious gallery connections.
It also symbolized an alliance between Fletcher's prestigious medical connections and the clinicians and social-medicine people and epidemiologists, who had lower status within the profession.
The bureau paid Ms. Leung $1.7 million, and her information was considered so valuable that intelligence officials used it to prepare White House briefings and gave Mr. Smith a prestigious award in connection with her case.
It is attractive to assume that the first use of this technique in Bohemia was linked with the arrival of foreign masters, especially those from the area of Italy, working on prestigious orders in connection with the flourishing of the royal court.
That alone should not be a disqualifying factor; nominees to these prestigious posts often have connections to powerful officeholders.
But many educators and students argue that while the programs bridge one gulf — between those who have degrees from prestigious colleges or family connections and those who do not — only to create a new one, between the students who have parents willing and able to buy their children better job prospects and those who do not.
Institutional gains can result either from the appointment of a prestigious executive or from the connection to his or her firm.
Establishing undirected interlocks, institutional benefits can theoretically accrue through both the appointment of a high-status director or the connection to a prestigious firm.
Worse still are the tacky images attempting to draw a connection between this prestigious tube of H2O and the musings of Leornado Da Vinci, Audrey Hepburn, and others.
