A 2006 study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology found that participants were more likely to award "prestigious jobs" to women who used makeup than to the same women when their faces were unadorned.
Real Madrid boasted of its on-field success in attempting to entice the player to join them, having just won the Champions League for the second time in three years, while Man United had failed to qualify for European football's most prestigious club tournament for the second time in three years.
The 46-year-old former punk rocker turned media entrepreneur was speaking before he was set to deliver the prestigious McTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International TV Festival last night.
A young Chinese author just beat Stephen King in the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction.
China's prestigious Tsinghua University was 58th, beating Peking University in 71st place, in the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
For example, the prestigious Tsinghua University gave copies of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" to promote good reading habits, said its president Qiu Yong.
The five prestigious universities -- Renmin University of China, University of Science Technology Beijing, Beijing Institute of Technology, China University of Political Science and Law, and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics -- have begun piloting the effort.
The 40th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Istanbul on Sunday decided to put China's Hubei Shennongjia on the prestigious World Heritage List as a natural site, bringing to 50 the number of listed Chinese sites.
Fudan University and Peking University, two prestigious comprehensive universities in China, were ranked fourth and sixth on the salary ranking, while the remaining of the top 20 were dominated by finance/economics and science/technology schools.
She might be serving a two-year doping ban, but tennis star Maria Sharapova won't be twiddling her thumbs during that enforced sabbatical after enrolling for a course at the prestigious Harvard Business School.
Besides, it should be noted that there are no logos on the visible parts of clothes manufactured by famous and prestigious brands.
In a more recent blow this week, the president of one of Japan's most prestigious women's universities condemned as sexist and anachronistic a song written by Yasushi Akimoto, a professional songwriter who sits on the executive board for the Tokyo Olympics.
Tsinghua University was listed as one of the world's 20 best schools--a first for China--in a prestigious international ranking that was released recently.
Last year, he was awarded the prestigious Carlo Alberto Medal as the best Italian economist under 40.
Malia, who turns 18 in July, is a senior at the prestigious Sidwell Friends School here.
Around 200 students crowded into a lecture hall at the prestigious university on March 30 as the first class of a new course on romance, "Basic Theory and Experience of Love," got underway.
Few other upmarket buildings are available in the most prestigious part of New York.
The most prestigious schools use school uniforms, so we should adopt that policy, as well.
Students in remote or impoverished rural regions who are in their final grade in high school will no longer need to make the long journey to Shanghai for written tests and interviews to secure a place in prestigious Fudan University.
Last year, Liu Peng, who owns an apartment near the Fifth Ring Road, rented a two-bedroom apartment in Dongzhimen because his daughter started studying nearby at the prestigious Shijia Primary School.
