top-grade

The differences between top-grade sushi and bad sushi are just as obvious, you really don't need to be an expert.

The average fees are somewhat high (high for a global average but low-ish for top-grade programmers).

You moved from top-grade cosmic level thought to whether X or Y is sleeping with Z.

Sure, some are Dukes of Hazzard beer swilln' hicks, but others are top-grade software developers, teachers, and engineers.

The article says they are already at the same level as top-grade organic food.

The only other thing that comes to mind are the top-grade encryption algorithms.

There is plenty of top-grade politically-conservative technical talent in America.

With Route53 you get a top-grade DNS service that is equivalent, if not better, than the enterprise hosted DNS solutions but at the price of the low-end consumer style services.

For non-cryptographic applications that don't require top-grade security, but do want a short reasonably-unique identifier for a file to detect duplicates, MD5's speed and ubiquity made it a natural choice.

Google is the company pushing the Nexus 4 down to $300 to try and prove that top-grade equipment can be more mass market rather than trying to maximize profit with a $500+ Nexus 4.

You're right but: (1) There is a shortage of top-grade developers / other top-grade IT people - there are only that few and there is a very strong global demand for them - those established in this group can almost always choose from multiple offers at a time with salaries in the region of 200k+ or even much more (if they also have proper business skills).