Public interest is particularly high during the draw for the third round, which is where the top-ranked teams are added to the draw.

Modern Munich is a financial and publishing hub, and a frequently top-ranked destination for migration and expatriate location in livability rankings.

The top-ranked snowboarder today () is Shaun White.

Washington played a father serving a six-year prison term who is propositioned by the warden to a temporary parole on the terms that he must convince his top-ranked high-school basketball player son ( Ray Allen ) into signing with the governor's alma mater, Big State.

Today it is one of the top-ranked universities in the South.

This is a particularly significant achievement given that SOAS is the only top-ranked department to specialize, more or less exclusively, in the peoples and diasporas of Africa, Asia and the Near and Middle East.

Quaker Valley School District is often regarded as one of the best and academically top-ranked school districts in the nation.

Lower Makefield is part of the Pennsbury School District, which is a top-ranked Blue Ribbon school district in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world, which hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport and produces events worldwide.

Founded under the name of Colegio Santa María de Jesús in 1505, it has a present student body of over 65, 000, and is one of the top-ranked universities in the country.

The late twentieth century increase in the Jewish population of the neighborhood has meant that Riverdale is now home to top-ranked Jewish day schools, the SAR Academy, a elementary school, and the SAR High School, as well as the Yeshiva of Telshe Alumni and Yeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale.

The H. John Heinz III College ( Heinz College ) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States is a graduate college that consists of one of the nation's top-ranked public policy schools and I-schools.

It is most well known for its engineering disciplines and is one of the top-ranked schools to attend for engineering in North America and the world over.

This is most notable because most of the games on the list came with various versions of Windows ( such as the top-ranked game, Solitaire, with 46. 7 million users ).

( The name gave rise to the term Weedwhacker Bowl, which is sometimes used to refer to a second-rank bowl game, especially by fans of top-ranked teams who expect their squads to compete in BCS contests.

Edmonton is Alberta's number one tourism destination in several key categories and Alberta's top-ranked metropolitan destination in other categories.

HR departments around the world have decided on Business English Tests ( BET ) to select, place, monitor progress and motivate personnel because BET tests are: Professional & Authentic ( HR tool research & evidence-based, designed, developed and administered by ENERGIZERS, a truly global advisory boutique & market leader in expert HR, home to FULBRIGHT Scholars and faculty from top-ranked universities in the US & EU ), Energizing & Candidate-Friendly ( Boosting skills & confidence ), Valid ( Performance on the measure is related to what the measure is designed to assess ), Reliable ( Measurement is free from random error ; tests generating consistent results ) and available On Demand ( Whenever & wherever required ).

Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently the top-ranked football club from the island of Sicily.

In November 1988, Azem Vllasi and Kaqusha Jashari, as the two top-ranked Kosovo politicians, were toppled in the " anti-bureaucratic revolution " because of their unwillingness to accept the constitutional amendments curbing Kosovo's autonomy, and replaced by appointees of Slobodan Milošević, the leader of the League of Communists of Serbia at the time.

The novel centers on Charlotte, a naive new student at Dupont University, a school boasting a top-ranked basketball program and an Ivy League academic reputation.

By early 1970, the WCT had signed other players ( Marty Riessen, Ray Moore, Tom Okker, Arthur Ashe ) and absorbed the other major professional organization, the National Tennis League ( NTL ), which had under contract some of the top-ranked pros of the day, including Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Andrés Gimeno, Pancho Gonzáles, Roy Emerson, and Fred Stolle.

After examining the position of women around the world, the Washington-based Population Crisis Committee reported in 1988 that Finland, slightly behind top-ranked Sweden and just ahead of the United States, was one of the very best places in which a woman could live.

Chesnutt also began writing stories, which were published by top-ranked national magazines.

In 1989, McEnroe won a record fifth title at the World Championship Tennis Finals ( the championship tournament of the WCT tour, which was being staged for the last time ), defeating top-ranked Lendl in the semifinals.

In 2001, despite coming into the series in last place in the SEC West, Arkansas swept a three-game series from top-ranked LSU, which won the 2000 College World Series, in Fayetteville.

Among his senior year performances were a 200-yard effort in a loss to Helix High School, a 248-yard ( on 24 carries ) and three-touchdown game in a 26-3 win at Chula Vista, a 215-yard ( 21 carries ) and two-touchdown showing in a 13-3 win against Mira Mesa, a 143-yard ( 18 carries ) and two-touchdown game in a 28-10 victory over Point Loma, and a 129-yard ( 24 carries ) and one-touchdown game against top-ranked Morse which included Williams totaling 47 of the 69 yards Patrick Henry accumulated during the game-winning drive in a 20-17 upset.

To wrap up the season, they have NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters ( singles event ) and Camozzi Doubles Masters tournaments which only world top-ranked players can compete.

In 2000 and 2001, all Yaohua High School graduates were admitted to universities, of which 97 % were top-ranked ones.

Since its foundation, the university has had more than 40 projects that were ranked first in the country and has received more than 900 awards for achievements, which have made BUAA one of the top-ranked universities in the field of high tech.

Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown ( with Patrick Ewing ) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston.

Badminton is the only sport in which Malaysia have ever won an Olympic medal, but despite the fact they entered a top-ranked doubles team ( Choong and Lee ), and two top ten singles players, Wong Choong Hann and Lee Chong Wei, they were unable to add to their medal total.

For example, in its first week playing in San Francisco, California, it made $ 16, 000 — just behind the top-ranked movie of the week for the area, the reissue of Bambi ( which grossed $ 18, 500 ).

He completed 61. 5 percent of his passes for 2, 328 yards and 15 touchdowns, leading the Hurricanes to an 11 – 1 regular season and a berth in the Orange Bowl against top-ranked Nebraska, which had won 22 consecutive games.

Likewise, civic as well as municipal and governmental colleges along with town halls counted this style among its top-ranked and most-prized structures to this day ; ironically, in Britain itself, for example, King George IV's Royal Pavilion at Brighton, ( which twice in its lifetime has been threatened with being torn-down, denigrated by some as a “ carnival sideshow ”, and dismissed by others as “ an architectural folly of inferior design ”, no less ) and elsewhere, these rare and often diminutive ( though sometimes, as mentioned, of grand-scale ), residential structures that exhibit this colonial style are highly valuable and prized by the communities in which they exist as being somehow “ magical ” in appearance.

When new employees were hired, they were generally in their twenties and top-ranked graduates from Stanford University or Harvard University, both of which Romney had attended.

* Arguably the biggest game in the building since its renovation occurred on March 6, 2004, when the UW men's basketball team hosted top-ranked and then-undefeated Stanford on national television, a game which the Huskies won 75-62.

During his four years as chancellor, the University also founded the George Warren Brown Department of Social Work, which later became its own school within the university and one of the top-ranked social-work programs in the United States.

Israel ( ranked 8th in the Davis Cup standings, with 5, 394 points ) hosted heavily favored Russia ( which won in both 2002 and 2006, and was the top-ranked country in Davis Cup standings, with 27, 897 points ) in a Davis Cup quarterfinal tie in July 2009, on indoor hard courts at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv.

The Steeldogs thoroughly dominated the league ’ s top-ranked team, handing them their first home loss in 18 games ( a streak that started in 2000 with a seven-point victory over Birmingham ) and also exacting revenge for the team ’ s opening night loss.

Iowa started the 2006 season strong, winning their first four games before losing to top-ranked Ohio State.

The 2000 season started well for Simoni: he'd transferred to the top-ranked team of two-time Giro d ' Italia winner Giuseppe Saronni and went on to again finish on the podium of the Giro d ' Italia.