The leaders also have a game in hand on their Irish rivals and the two Scottish clubs.
Those languid creative geniuses, sensitive playmakers who seemed to walk on the pitch but, suddenly, with two magical strokes they brushed aside their rivals and sent the striker away with one last touch.
They have tried (and failed) to divide their rivals, and accuse the MUD of plotting a coup.
They can torture and murder their rivals and know that the country is not going to sink into complete and total chaos.
The worst-placed of the nine group runners-up will miss out on the South Africa 2010 shoot-out in November and Scotland and their rivals for the runners-up spot in Group Nine are in danger of doing just that.
As for West Ham, a remarkable season ended in remarkable circumstances - and may yet have a last turn if their relegation rivals have their say and demand further action on the controversial Tevez and Javier Mascherano deals.
Until their husbands cheat on them, that is, with younger, blonder, bustier rivals and the protagonists must reassess their attachment to limitless cash and armies of domestic staff.
The former Leicester, Brive and Sharks number 10 says the big difference between Worcester and their play-off rivals is the strength in depth, funded by owner Cecil Duckworth.
It doesn't help that Clemens' playing career included stints with both the Red Sox and Yankees, bitter rivals loved by their own fans and detested by the other's.
The NBA 's Los Angeles Lakers , for example, annually obviate their younger and hapless crosstown rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers .
By negotiating the release of not only their own cadres, but also some of their rivals in the West Bank and even six Israeli Arabs, Hamas can claim to represent not just Islamists but all Palestinians, including the 1.5m living in Israel.
And both the telecoms firms and their cable rivals are aggressively, though somewhat reluctantly, offering VOIP telephony.
She won a place in Girls Aloud through reality TV show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, and their first single Sound of the Underground went straight to number one.
The underlying publishers were Wiley and some other rivals, and the size of his revenue caught their attention.
Chelsea continued to pen their rivals back after the break and Ashley Cole fizzed an angled shot wide.
The aim is to put pressure on mediocre universities to drop their prices, or risk losing both their clever students to their superior rivals and parsimonious types to the cheap-and-cheerful.
But Bolivar, the biggest team from La Paz (3, 600 metres) are competition stalwarts, and their city rivals The Strongest are frequent participants, though they have failed to qualify this year.
Judging by the past, he will try to strike a balance between unpopular Arafat loyalists and their upstart rivals who briefly split the party just before the election.
It can rely solely on compacts with the region's existing power-brokers, which often means conniving at, or even reinforcing, the corrupt practices by which they shore up their own authority and squash the emergence of rivals.
But within 22 seconds, Rafalski beat the 37-year-old Brodeur again, and despite outshooting their rivals 19-6 in the first period, Canada went into the break 2-1 down, with US keeper Ryan Miller making 18 saves.
Unlike their rivals to the south, metals and mining shares were the weakest performers, with the RTS index for that sector down 1.8% even after the late-day recovery.
Physicians, nurses and administrators know that their outcomes will be visible to colleagues and rivals inside and outside the hospital.
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At the same time, they need to consider the possibility that their rivals are misbehaving in the name of competition and to keep an eye on them.
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Murphy is jealous and believes watching their Old Firm rivals in their first Group C fixture will spur Celtic on to grab back the title - and the one Champions League place up for grabs next season.
They've taken three in a row from their crosstown rivals for their first four-game winning streak of the year and will go for a Big Apple whitewash in the finale Thursday night at Yankee Stadium.
He was wary of the revue-style bonhomie of the popular TV double act Morecambe and Wise, and disapproved of the cheery bawdiness of their rivals, the Two Ronnies.
But in the meantime police sealed several of his rivals' campaign headquarters, suspended updating to their websites and continued the nationwide block of message services on Iranian mobile-phone networks that had been imposed during polling.
They often leave messages for their rivals on the bodies of their victims and then pressure local journalists to transmit those threats.
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The fall has been triggered by concerns over future growth of the firm, not least due to the success of rivals such as Samsung which have increased their share of the smartphone and tablet PC markets, which Apple used to dominate.
During a recent visit to the FORBES bureau in San Francisco, JDSU Chief Executive Thomas Waechter noted that in order to meet demand, companies making telecommunications equipment and their carrier customers are buying truckloads of the esoterica sold by JDSU and rivals.
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