For example, Welch says if you have an extra helping of mashed potatoes, don't beat yourself up.
Mr. Condon says evidence continues to mount that stock-picking managers don't beat the broad market on average.
In today's acrobatic schools, teachers don't beat their students when the students do poorly, the way they used to.
In contrast, Tawada's short stories in The Bridegroom Was A Dog don't beat you down as much as mess with your head.
"We don't want to beat people over the head with pay walls, " says Kazim.
By design, hedge funds don't try to beat the market when it's on the rise as much as they try to blunt the damage in a downturn, says Hennessee Group's Charles Gradante.
''Don't forget we beat them 1-0 in 1997 with a team of young unknown players and now with a better team we can do it again, '' said the former under-23 team coach.
And when they are, they don't just try to beat you.
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We're playing against a worthy opponent and if we don't play well, they beat us.
But the aging, beat-up Phillies don't seem quite as imposing this year.
"When you see manefish collected in trawls they are incredibly beat up, they don't look like much of a fish at all, " said Professor Benfield.
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Since they aren't designed to beat the market, but only to match it, these portfolios don't look very appealing after a long period in which stocks have gone nowhere.
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"We had enough opportunities to beat Cliftonville but if you don't take them you don't win matches, " he said.
"The fact they have to shoot, beat and murder shows they don't have the control or the stranglehold that they want, " he said.
She said the huge Marange diamond fields of eastern Zimbabwe are operated by military-run syndicates who beat or kill miners who don't mine for them or pay bribes.
"In the non-bull market that we've been in, institutional investors don't always know where to put their money to beat the index, " says Goldfarb.
If tortoise stocks beat the hares so consistently, why don't investors pile in and arbitrage away the difference?
If they don't play well and we impose our identity, we beat them.
"It is fair to say that every time Andrew Sheridan is supposed to beat someone up, as a pack we don't, " added the former Lions prop, who insisted he was not pointing the finger at the Sale giant.
Cisco or Oracle might have the clout and marketing muscle to beat back the technological tide, but smaller players surely don't.
And even if they don't love him, conservatives recognize that Romney is the man best placed to beat Obama.
Without it, we don't have young Jeff Blatnick of Niskayuna, New York, growing up to beat cancer and beat his opponent in the 1984 super-heavyweight gold-medal match, quite a feat for a kid who had his spleen and appendix taken out.
We always believe we can beat the big guns - there's no point in playing if you don't.
We're only worried that if we don't invest in people and technology, even a small company that has made those investments can beat us.
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It has been a grand year for Japanese films, and they don't come much grander than Hana-bi, a poetic, violent masterpiece from Kitano "Beat" Takeshi, and Princess Mononoke, a superb animation by Miyazaki Hayao.
While the clock speeds don't match those of Intel's fastest chips, the Apple executive claimed his new processors beat the pants off of a 600MHz Pentium III running most applications -- an assertion that Intel will likely refute.
Don't ignore the effects of inflation - try to put your money where the return is likely to beat inflation.
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