When that slows, pyramids eventually collapse and leave all but the top dogs the poorer for it.
In the past few months the accumulated grudges among the top dogs have threatened to become terminally destructive.
In other words, all three companies are top dogs in their own rights.
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The two-day and night competition came down to seven top dogs in the following categories: hound, sporting, working, herding, toy, terrier and nonsporting.
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In any case, most Russians, used to being the unquestioned top dogs in the Soviet Union, find it hard to take ethnic minorities seriously.
Historically, top dogs have had a far bigger share than that.
So, Samsung and Apple are still top dogs in the market smartphones, but Nokia is now looking a little better placed to challenge for the number three position.
No doubt the top dogs at Disney hope the renewed focus on movie magic will mean magic for the resort that executives have admitted is not up to brand standards.
No, neither of these devices will be as thin as many of the modern-day top dogs, but despite their bulkier frame the two handsets had a solid build quality and were decidedly comfortable to hold.
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Some top dogs travel the country in blinged-out RVs, comparable to a rock star's ride, though as Dean writes in "Show Dog, " Uno the beagle, upon winning Westminster, got his own seat on a commercial plane.
The concept of growth in a high-volume, highly competitive market such as the online gaming space would seem like a monolithic feat to those indie game studios to push their brand and new products into the rankings of the top dogs (Zynga, etc).
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Intel and AMD retained their positions as top dogs of the microprocessor market in the third quarter, as they brace themselves for what will be an all out war for dominance of the tablet and smartphone markets in the coming months and years.
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Goran Tunhammar, head of the employers' club, says Swedish companies are only adapting to a global market where top dogs at American and British companies, for instance, get much bigger salaries than their Swedish counterparts and lose much less than the 60% that high-earning Swedes pay in income tax.
According to Strategy Analytics' just-published study from the fall, it's Apple's iCloud and iTunes Match that are top dogs in the US at a combined 27 percent of usage -- a not entirely surprising lead when Apple has pushed hard on iCloud's media syncing since iOS 5, and has large swaths of market share in MP3 players and tablets, not just smartphones.
The German wirehaired pointer, English Springer spaniel and Doberman pinscher were the top three dogs by breed points through December not that it will matter much come Tuesday evening, when Best in Show at Westminster is determined.
"For him to say in a 48-hour period they killed the top two dogs in the Sahara, it takes the pressure off of him, " said Rudolph Atallah, the former head of counterterrorism for Africa at the Pentagon.
Dad does barbecue on the weekends and on the nights when Mom's away takes a pizza out of the freezer or makes boiled noodles with sliced hot dogs on top.
When team arrived at the cliff top, they found both dogs had died after a headlong plunge and were being washed around in the sea.
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The charity's ways of dealing with this problem include a treadmill for dogs to use, and a top floor room where they can be let loose to play, complete with giant lorry tyres and a paddling pool.
Dogs Head Street, Falcon Road and the top part of Silent Street will be closed to vehicles while the work is carried out, and buses will have alternative routes.
The Small Dogs of the Dow uses the same strategy but with only the top five highest-yielding Dow stocks.
Victoria Park, owner of Park Pet Supply in Atlanta, says self-cleaning varieties get top billing during this time of the year, particularly for long-haired dogs.
Jewel was the top hound and Honor the bichon frise won the nonsporting group Ellen Charles co-owns both dogs.
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