It was not just people like Mr Romney who were pushing American companies to shape up.
Of course, Dell's competitors have been honing their game, even as Dell tries to shape up.
In the case of Amazon, the market is clearly saying they expect earnings to shape up sometime soon.
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To me, these results are clear indication that this is going to shape up to be a very intriguing buying season.
Polish officials still have fresh memories of their country's EU accession, when they were bossed around and told to shape up.
The president told every nondemocratic government in the world to shape up.
Musicals and marching band routines are starting to shape up, I believe.
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So the budget gives us a sort of preview of how America's political debate is going to shape up in the coming months.
When Rover, the German-owned remnant of Britain's car industry, was in trouble this summer, he told it to shape up, not look to him for a rescue.
Having no other recourse, NYC had to shape up.
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He has given China's rotten banks three years to shape up: the Bank of China, for instance, the country's least sick state bank, is about to announce it will sack half its 200, 000 staff.
The visitors threatened when Shola Ameobi laid the ball off to Alan Shearer but after he had chested the ball down, Habib Beye blocked the former England captain as he tried to shape up to shoot.
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She calmly defended herself as Middlesex County District Attorney Gerard Leone Jr. pounded away about her late hours and other behavior that prompted the boy's parents, Sunil and Deborah Eappen, to give her an ultimatum to shape up.
Schools will have to shape up: even the priciest private ones offer part-time education with no guarantee that siblings get offered the same shift meaning that families often have to shell out for both school fees and a nanny who works full-time.
So McNamee is suggesting that in order to get into shape, in order to be photographed in her swimwear, Clemens's wife is also took performance enhancing drugs in order to shape up and be slimmer, I reckon, in Sports Illustrated.
He has created some big shoes to fill, and now that the 2013 mayoral race is starting to shape up, it will be interesting to see who steps up to fill them and what their brands will bring to New York City.
Samsung's response will go beyond just asking HEG to shape up, though: it plans to finish auditing all 105 of its exclusive Chinese contractors by the end of September, determine whether inspections of non-exclusive contractors are needed and set up a long-term audit schedule past 2013 that includes tougher requirements.
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But wouldn't you agree that rather than spending years dynamiting away the mountain, a better tack might be for someone to begin to exercise until he or she is in good enough shape to run up the mountain?
Employees at a start-up help to shape the firm as it grows up.
Some of the changes for volunteers include a physical fitness test, lessons in the physics of balloon-handling and a free three-month gym membership to help them shape up.
English title holder Dodson also claims to be in top shape as the build-up to his clash with 'The Cobra' begins in earnest.
His policy revolves around this government's innovation of neighbourhood plans - groups of residents, villages, parish councils, interest groups set up to shape planning decisions in a given area but whatever mix, all designated by a local authority.
This stretch of NBA flotsam is supposed to be an opportunity for the Knicks to fatten up their record, to blast into shape before bigger tests.
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