If a director doesn't like that, well, the director isn't the top dog at the opera.
When you're the top dog, you do what you have to do to govern.
It may be that to be the top dog economically, we may never be the top dog academically.
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In its day, this 340hp with V12 engine was the top dog of sports-car racing (Carroll Shelby himself drove one).
It certainly appears that way and, if so, the Big 10 has put itself in a position to be the top dog among those behemoths.
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In recent years billions have flooded into the more-than-5, 000 private-equity firms that focus on China (see chart), but Hony has emerged as the top dog.
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Also, the supplement business is very competitive and new innovations and claims of better mousetraps are always trying to knock the top dog off the pedestal.
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You'll be the top dog as you nosh on creamed chipped beef, traditional eggs Benedict, or shrimp and grits prepared with prawns culled right from the Chesapeake.
The BlackBerry is still arguably the top dog, but the sniper hit from Apple and the global economic recession have taken quite a toll on RIMM shares.
Apple and Google, the latter riding on a Samsung partnership, continue to play an escalating game of units versus revenues to determine which is the top dog in mobile operating systems.
At first glace, we might think that Woods is no longer the top dog at Nike Golf, as Ed Kiernan, president of sports marketing agency Engine Shop, told FORBES SportsMoney guru Kurt Badenhausen.
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When Psion was no longer the top dog in the PDA, it did not fade away while everyone else bought Nokia Communicators and Palm Treos, it simply became such a small percentage of the market, and was no longer relevant.
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Between December 1995 and August 2009, Australia was only off the number-one spot in the world rankings for a total of about six months, and was the undisputed top dog for the last six of those years.
Rory McIlroy, who took over as No. 1 last weekend after a gritty victory at the Honda Classic (fending off a final-round, eight-under-par 62 charge from Woods), has unimpeachable credentials as the new top dog.
Clicking on the top right will dog-ear the page for a bookmark.
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Final tallies of supremacy may have to wait until the merger processes are complete, but one thing is certain: Forsee's combo telecom has vaulted into the lofty elite of No. 2 provider Verizon Wireless--a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone--and the market's top dog, the JV of SBC Communications and BellSouth, Cingular.
The question for boxing now is whether Pacquiao (48-3-2) can wear the mantle of top dog as well De La Hoya did.
We're just out to get the best, most lust-worthy car (or SUV), and that makes the Range Rover top dog in our book.
And should you wish to up the ante at any point, you could add a pair of sparkly earrings and some heels, or conversely throw a cozy black cashmere sweater over the top for a dog walk or a TV-watching marathon.
The introduction almost certainly brought about the demise of the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, the top indigenous predator - probably because the dog was a more efficient hunter.
The chief Asian project will be to enmesh both countries into a broader set of economic and security norms, while ensuring a continued security presence for the United States, still the region's top dog in military terms.
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For openers, he's the chairman and chief executive--top dog--and majority owner of the company, Track Data (nasdaq: TRAC - news - people ), in whose stock he purportedly trafficked.
MacBooks: For the past three months, MacBooks achieved 27% market share in the US, making it top dog.
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When it came to who was top dog on the baseball side, the talent evaluator was out, the numbers guy was in.
Mayor of New York is perhaps the only job in town that would allow him to remain the family's political top dog, rather than his wife, who by then may be a senator.
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Not all of this is to avoid tax: those passed over as top dog in the parent company find solace in the chauffeur-driven car and free golf-club membership that go with the presidency of one of the offspring.
We were approaching the flooded ruins of a 19th century fort when, to our surprise, we spotted a dog on top of the rubble.
Of the 2, 721 entries in America's top dog event that begins Monday, more than 500 are from the New York-New Jersey area.
Their line-out had fallen apart, losing five of their own throws after the break, and the game had turned into a real dog fight, with the hosts on top.
The company recently released a list of the top 10 states for State Farm dog-bite claims.
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