Of the firms who did outmaneuver the markets, no firm held the top spot for the entire period.

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More recently, Lilly, which has an entire department devoted exclusively to managing alliances, was able to outmaneuver Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

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Sanctuary can lock down opposing forces to prevent them from moving, then utilize outmaneuver cards to pull them right into oncoming traffic.

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As a result, the California companies, once so confident that they could outmaneuver the competition, are scrambling to retool their strategies and find niches in which they can thrive.

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How did Anwar seemingly outmaneuver the man who has dominated Malaysian politics and national life as premier for 14 years, and who led his National Front government to a stunning general election victory just six months ago?

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Although he had shifted his ownership to Atlantic via a complex Bahamas-based asset swap to minimize disclosure and taxes, Feeney continued to aggressively expand DFS, traveling the globe to conquer new markets, expand margins and outmaneuver rivals.

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No one person, or group of people, can possibly outsmart or outmaneuver markets for long or fine-tune the activities or creativity of a national economy of nearly 300 million people--or a global economy of more than 6 billion.

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With the clock ticking away on the deadline for the one year payroll tax cut ( this one, as it turns out, is a real deadline), Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are fighting to see who can outmaneuver each other.

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It has to be big and ambitious enough to inspire and motivate teams to do things they never even thought were possible, especially in those early years when small teams of engineers and developers and designers need to outmaneuver companies with far more resources.

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