Everything else took a beating, thanks to a nasty mix of weak demand and price cuts.
Particularly since Christie's father made his meager living beating out the mattresses of the rich.
If beating the stock market was so difficult, perhaps commodities would prove more fruitful.
Beating the market with actively managed mutual funds requires investors to select winning funds in advance.
Since it is, after all, based on numbers, some try to concoct market-beating formulas.
But the Ryanair jingle also says it is "beating every other European airline" on punctuality.
Beating sleeping anti-corruption protesters while television cameras roll is not the most sensible public-relations policy.
Sunderland had sprung a surprise by beating Everton thus relieving some of their relegation concerns.
Had Democrats succeeded, as President Obama has now done, the beating would likely have been worse.
And Woody Allen has forty, beating out William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, and both Roosevelts.
Blackpool booked an FA Cup fifth-round tie at Everton after comfortably beating Sheffield Wednesday.
The Knicks won their first playoff series since 2000, beating the Celtics in six games.
The market had been behaving so poorly for so long, it needed a good beating.
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After the beating Tripp has taken in the press, Starr's grand-jury chamber must seem downright inviting.
Wales lost 15-0 to pool winners Fiji on Saturday morning after emphatically beating Korea and Zimbabwe.
Excluding items, the company earned 71 cents per share, beating estimates of 54 cents.
There is no point beating around the bush, the South Africa game was a disaster.
United Technologies was the weakest stock on the Dow, falling 2% despite beating earnings estimates.
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The '27 Yankees rolled up their impressive win total by beating the woeful St.
Lester (5-0) threw a no-hitter on May 19, 2008, beating the Kansas City Royals 7-0.
In 1999, Shakespeare in Love won best picture, beating the favourite Saving Private Ryan.
Taylor first became a world champion in 2005 after beating Bernard Hopkins on points.
IMF-inspired medicine may work, but the patient will take a beating on the way.
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So when it came to Ireland beating England I at least knew something about it.
And he has even taken to beating the fibres into a pulp that makes excellent paper.
But, over time, with cameras beating down on them, even the fakest contestants radiate charisma.
He walked over to a wall and began beating his forehead against it, dozens of times.
Two other police officers were convicted of beating to death businessman Karim Fakhawri while in custody.
Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart adopts an irregular rhythm that makes it stop beating.
Russian fourth seed Vera Zvonareva also went through after beating Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko 6-1 6-1.
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