The Institute's primary aim, initially, was to play a role in defense policy debates, defending Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI, or " Star Wars ").

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

It is ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films.

Edward M. Stolper is the Institute's ninth provost and is responsible for academic budget, faculty appointments and promotions, and coordinates curriculum.

While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

The film is ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies of all Time, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997 for being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

The East End is home to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Carlow University, Chatham University, The Carnegie Institute's Museums of Art and Natural History, Frick Art & Historical Center ( Clayton and the Frick art museum ), Phipps Conservatory, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, and the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium.

One prominent critic of the ALA's stance was the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald, who argued in an article for the New York City Journal that " he furor over section 215 is a case study in Patriot Act fear-mongering.

He is currently the Philip E. Johnson Research Professor in Culture & Science at the Southern Evangelical Seminary at Matthews, North Carolina, and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.

She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's Greatest female stars.

She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around US $ 500, 000 per year ( more than five times the salary of the US President ).

The Institute's current president is Salvador Giner, elected to the office for four years in June 2005, and to a second term in 2009.

Classic programs include the Electric Power Research Institute's ( EPRI ) CAFTA software, which is used by many of the US nuclear power plants and by a majority of US and international aerospace manufacturers, and the Idaho National Laboratory's SAPHIRE, which is used by the U. S. Government to evaluate the safety and reliability of nuclear reactors, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station.

The film is # 27 on the American Film Institute's 2007 list of great films.

Reporter magazine, founded in 1951, is the Institute's primary student-run magazine.

The Institute's Gordon Field House and Activities Center is home to competitive and recreational athletics and aquatics, a fitness center, and an auditorium hosting frequent concerts and other entertainment.

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum ( August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997 ) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is # 23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time.

Babycham, the first mass-produced branded perry, was developed by Showering from application of the Long Ashton Institute's research, and was formerly produced from authentic perry pears, though is today produced from concentrate, the firm's pear orchards having now been dug up.

Adams Hall, formerly part of the Tome Institute, became the Town Hall ; the only remains of the Tome Institute's former Washington Hall is the granite doorway which separates the Main Street from a parking lot today.

The Monroe Institute's Nancy Penn Center is the oldest and most established facility specializing in out-of-body experience induction.

Berkhamsted is also the home of the British Film Institute's BFI National Archive at King's Hill, one of the largest film and television archives in the world, which was generously endowed by John Paul Getty.

Miner Institute's campus is also home to William Miner's preserved One Room Schoolhouse.

" Also located in Mooresville is the corporate headquarters of Lowe's Companies and Universal Technical Institute's NASCAR Technical Institute.

The film is number thirty-four on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies, and was named the number eight Fantasy film in AFI's 10 Top 10.

The Institute's mission is: " to provide an open forum for the exchange of ideas, to disseminate and advance the knowledge of sea power, and to preserve our naval and maritime heritage.

WPI's innovative undergraduate program also enjoys a strong reputation among education officials ; the New England Association of Schools and Colleges favorably commented on the Institute's dedication and unique approach to science and engineering education.

Conservatories, institutes of music education, were introduced to the United States in the mid to late 19th century, beginning with Baltimore's Peabody Institute's Conservatory of Music, founded in 1857.

Although most of the Institute's research is UK-focused, recent work has also looked at international development policies, for instance at education and nutrition programmes in Colombia.

His postgraduate military education includes the National Defense University, the United States Army War College, the Command and General Staff College, and the Defense Language Institute's program in Vietnamese.

The Institute's Director, Professor Sarah Harper highlights in her book Ageing Societies the implications for work, families, health, education, and technology of the ageing of the world's population.

The Institute's work is oriented toward a conservative perspective on its issues of primary concern, which are now education policy, tax and welfare policy.

The Institute's founding chancellor is Russell H. Dilday, a former president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, who wrote of a ' lively renaissance of Baptist theological education at the edge of a new millennium ' prior to the launch of the Institute.

The Institute's representatives express no competition existing between the residential-model of education exemplified by Southwestern and their own non-residential model.

The results of the radical reforms have been recognized by Transparency International ( which ranked Estonia the least corrupt country in the post-communist region ), the Heritage Foundation / Wall Street Journal ( whose index qualified Estonia as the most economically free in all of Europe ), the United Nations Development Program ( whose Human Development Index measured Estonia ’ s rapid rise in such quality-of-life parameters as education, health, income and environment ), and the Cato Institute, which awarded Laar the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty in 2006.

However, consistent with Reynolds ' radical sympathies, the bulk of the Institute's work was still devoted to vocational, rather than academic, education.

The majority of The Lion Rock Institute's efforts are devoted to broadcasting and telecom, town planning, transportation, house and redevelopment, fiscal management, competition law, social mobility, minimum wage, education, health care, and financial services.

During the Imperial period, unlike most other Russian universities, the Institute did not require completion of gymnasium education as a condition of entry ; the only requirement was to pass the Institute's examination.

She also received the Los Angeles-based Children's Nature Institute's Leaf Award in 2003 for her commitment to the environmental education of young children.

The Peabody Institute's Conservatory is the most renowned music education facility in the area, and has been one of the top nationally for decades.

Baltimore's most famous institute of higher music education is the Peabody Institute's Conservatory of Music, founded in 1857 though instruction did not begin until 1868.

The combined entity draws on Middlebury's two hundred years experience in liberal arts and language education and the Institute's professional programs to prepare students to respond effectively to the complex challenges of a rapidly changing global environment.