GE was once one of the few companies that enjoyed a prestigious AAA rating on its debt, but lost it in 2009 after the financial crisis.
The company celebrated its 500th modern apprenticeship in Scotland, created the first Level 2 rail engineering apprenticeship and received the prestigious 'Good' rating for its overall apprenticeship scheme from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted).
By design, the ship is energy efficient and environmentally protective of marine ecosystems and has been awarded the prestigious "Clean Ship" rating, an extreme rarity among ocean-cruising vessels.
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S&P was the last of the three main ratings agencies to strip the UK of its prestigious triple A rating.
Even under normal circumstances, few of them would have made it through the gates of the Nicon Hilton, Nigeria's most prestigious hotel, whose rate for a single night would equal many Nigerians' annual earnings.
"We were both crying because whatever this presence was, was so overwhelming that it just hit you in your spirit". When he was a boy living in Los Angeles, Lenny Kravitz was a member of the prestigious California Boys Choir, then rated one of the best boys' choirs in the world.
Scott has also been selected for inclusion in Louisiana Super Lawyers-Personal Injury Plaintiff (2012-2013), and enjoys a prestigious AV peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
The global engineering and design consultancy employed just such an integrated system for its HQ, completed in 2011, earning the building a prestigious five-star Green Star rating in the process.
Mark Zandi, chief economist for the prestigious Moody's credit rating service, estimates that state and local government will lose another 400,000 jobs in the year ahead.
