As a trade reporter, my beat for many years was the consumer electronics industry.
Potter's "Gentleman Rabbit with Letter, " a watercolor from around 1890-93, is hard to beat for charm.
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"I am sure we get beat for some personal calls and miles here and there, " sighs the boss.
However his comments about Iraq appeared to annoy his brother David, whom he narrowly beat for the party leadership.
Dawson has been the man to beat for the last couple of years, but now Pascal has taken that crown.
Indeed, Roel is the man to beat for the light-flyweight (up to 48 kilos) title at the Asian Games in Bangkok.
Contributing editor Laurie Werner (believe me, you'd love to have her frequent-flyer miles) was on the Asian serenity beat for this issue.
If USB does become the dominate display technology the volume increase would make this interface technology hard to beat for some years to come.
If global brand name and prestige are a top-most major factor in decision making, Harvard is hard to beat for some years to come.
Hard to beat for traditional elegance is a pair of pearl drop earrings from 1972 by Bulgari that were once owned by film star Elizabeth Taylor.
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The word at Warner is that this is the real deal, possibly the film to beat for summer 2013 if audiences can get past their relative indifference to Superman Returns.
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The Beat for Peace film, part of the broader Sudan365 campaign, features drummers from bands like Radiohead, The Police and Snow Patrol, alongside musicians from Sudan and other countries, including Japan and Australia.
Yum Brands posted a top-line miss and a bottom-line beat for its third quarter, but investors focused on its performance in China, where operating profits surged 22% and same store sales gained 6%.
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Big Blue posted a nice earnings beat for the quarter, and raised its profit guidance for the full year, but revenues came in flat with a year ago, falling a tad shy of Street expectations.
Secondly, if you spend all your money on these camera systems, which are very expensive to operate and maintain and monitor, you have fewer dollars for cops on the beat, for example.
In the first quarter, for instance, 78% of companies reporting in the U.S. beat forecasts for the bottom line, HSBC says.
The world number two broke three times and defended all seven break points to beat Simon for the fifth time in a row, and he will now play John Isner after the American beat fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.
Unlike many other viral videos, the honey badger has stayed popular for months, attracting a few hundred thousand viewers daily and peaking Dec. 3, the day LSU beat Georgia for the SEC title.
On every measure, Apple (AAPL) beat expectations for its fiscal first quarter ended December.
As my colleague Brian Caulfield noted yesterday, Dell beat expectations for the second quarter.
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But its graduates beat Stanford for second place on our list, with an M.
Lundqvist stopped a few drives before Lecavalier finally beat him for his fifth goal of the season.
The very term beat or for Beatitude of Christ kind of came to Kerouac at a Catholic church.
He was with Portland in 1977 when the Trail Blazers rallied to beat Philadelphia for the NBA championship.
The company beat expectations for its fourth-quarter earnings, but it offered softer guidance for 2012, sending shares down.
Misek adds that he still thinks financial results will beat consensus for both the December and March quarters.
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