prestige

A lot of them are held there by a fear, not of losing the cash flow, but of losing the prestige or business card.

They muscled into the "prestige television" club for $100MM.

Other companies can't undercut Apple on price and lack Apple's brand prestige.

Writing letters isn't high-prestige either, which is why lawyers don't describe their job as writing letters all day.

So the author shouldn't get his panties in a bunch; no one is dragging the humanities down from it's privileged societal prestige.

They want the prestige of a "six figure salary," even though their buying power is an order of magnitude less than what that phrase originally referred to.

They conclude that the solution is to come up with ways to enhance their prestige even more, for example by writing articles like this one that talks about how great experts are.

Affiliations carry prestige for a site and being affiliated with the best sites raises a group's prestige, so there is often heated competition between sites and groups for affils.

The reasons are myriad but usually it comes down to prestige: for example, among couriers there is a longstanding weekly and monthly competition between groups that prove their chops by trying to dominate each other.

The quality and prestige of a board depends on the speed of its connection, its capacity, its group affiliations, the standing of its admins in the community and the speed with which new releases are uploaded to it.

I don't think students are necessarily in the wrong -- most are probably in college to get a job, and they're right to resent the stranglehold that universities have on social prestige and career respectability.

Occasionally code which is widely used will add a little to the prestige of an already-eminent scientist, but even then it rarely matters much.- Time spent on anything other than direct research or publication is seen as wasted time, and actively selected against.

I hope she hasn't ever donated to any disagreeable referendum campaigns.........or ever been a core member of an administration that left us with two disastrous wars, an offshore gulag, the greatest economic disaster in 70 years, a record of legitimizing torture, a decline in prestige on the world stage.