In Manhattan, Norman Laurila, who owns A Different Light, bemoans a tendency to beat it with the beat poets.
Not only did the Model T beat the Hummer, it beat every other comer, including a modern turbocharged Dodge diesel and the county sheriff's patrol car.
But with competitors already bringing smaller tablet form factor products to market at more affordable prices, it seems likely that Apple will respond rather than sit on the sidelines as other companies look to beat it in a market that it helped create if not re-create.
While it is good to have companies beat expectations it appears that the bar was quite low.
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And so that you get into the problem that you don't have the resources to spend on things that we know have a deterrent effect, we know have an effect on crime, whether it's the cop on the beat or it's social service.
"Said it was really close but thought he beat it, " Weiss said of the conversation.
The Front now has a club to beat it with -- the Bofors papers.
From the sound of it though, Tizen is about to beat it to the punch.
"I mean you can't beat it, " said Chris Pyun from the Green Room in Dallas, Texas.
Or she could get a frying pan from the kitchen and beat on it with a spoon.
Thanks to the chip, America overcame a five-year Soviet lead in rockets and beat it to the moon.
He takes every opportunity to talk about the disease and to invite foreigners to help him beat it.
And rivals who specialised in things like games were sometimes able to beat it on price and delivery.
Alonso's time stood until Heidfeld beat it with a 1:20.361 lap with 80 minutes of the test remaining.
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But a rival drug, Rezulin, from Pfizer, beat it to market in 1997.
Since Apple has historically always been conservative with its guidance the question becomes how much will it beat it.
"I was off work for 11 months but I knew I was going to beat it and I stayed positive, " he said.
To beat it, do not ride southbound trains between 7 am and 11 am, or northbound from 4 pm to 8 pm.
This is documentary photography in the raw, and you just can't beat it.
Another reason is that once a drug is approved, any new medicines must beat it in a big clinical trial.
Studios collect the credit, create some temporary jobs while shooting for a few months, then beat it back to Tinseltown.
When bowel cancer is detected at an early stage it is treatable and nine out of 10 people beat it.
The Glock 17 held 18 rounds and, because it was cheap to make, few competitors could beat it on price.
Both of which beat it on nearly every platform, from handling and reliability to the quality of the interior design.
Scientists now have the tools readily at hand to copy anything that life can build, and beat it at its own game.
The politicians are debating, in effect, whether to thump the industry severely or beat it to within an inch of its life.
It would have taken an exceptional round of golf to beat it.
These little battles seem to embody a deeper impatience with the passage of time, a perpetual desire to beat it, but for what?
If Wales beat Italy it would set up a potential Six Nations title decider against Ireland at the Millennium Stadium on 14 March.
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