Sendmail, the UNIX program that handles electronic mail, is commonly referred to as a beast.
The dozens of varieties of cattle raised today are all derived from the now-extinct auroch, which was used both for food and as a beast of burden from ancient times until the 17th century.
But Raikes sees it as a moveable beast:One-third of users haven't upgraded since 1997, a rich target if Microsoft can find new uses to excite them.
Mr Monti is a darling of Eurocrats, having served two terms as a big beast of the European Commission.
Mercury, however, emerged as a curious beast, theoretically owned on behalf of the public by the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust.
We see the S1082 as a different beast -- it's an evolution of an existing design that's really meant for business users.
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That's not to diminish the talents and achievements of the other players who are also in the running, said Bill Werde, Billboard's editorial director, but rather to view "21" as a different beast.
Still, Montermini and Paternostro recognize their project as a totally different beast.
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Mr. FAIUMU: I think we've always, up to this point, have viewed - from our small town and New Zealand a long way away - viewed America as such a huge, enormous beast.
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer will also appear as a furry blue mutant named Beast.
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After nearly 60 years, she might as well be a unicorn or other mythical beast.
The narrator sings about a man who slowly takes control of the world "with a face of an angel and the heart of a beast, " and as the man's promises lead to ruin, Norman's voice becomes increasingly defeated.
In my hunger to free my heart, I suited up in firefighting gear and went back into a "controlled" fire to face and heal my fears of fire as an adult, not as a scared little girl trapped with the beast in my grandparents' basement years ago.
"It's almost like a different beast, " said Josh Safdie, who counts the venue as a favorite, even though he has to trek down from his home in Harlem.
Or as another big beast in local government put it, they might be casting it as a public services commission but here's "the starting gun for Local Government Reform at last!"
He received his name, which translates as Mouse, because of his diminutive size as a calf but he grew into a 500kg beast.
For dinner, Milliways provided a traditional fictional feast, featuring a smorgasbord of imaginary delicacies such as roast beast, lembas bread, green eggs and ham and snozzberries with cream.
The thriller, whose subtitle translates as The Beast in the Shadows, involves a novelist who comes to the aid of a geisha during a promotional visit to Tokyo.
Instead, we head to Huawei, a company that sees itself as very different beast from its neighbour (although one executive there tells us that conditions at Foxconn are much better than they have been painted).
Dotcom said Mega was a different beast to Megaupload, as the new site enables users to control exactly which users can access uploaded files, in contrast to its predecessor, which allowed users to search files, some of which contained copyrighted content allegedly without permission.
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Wine DNA. Apparently, it's not unknown for underhand vintners to pass off one grape variety as another, and because wine is such a complex beast, how would we ever know?
Apparently, Loch Lomond has a beast reported to resemble a plesiosaur but has also been described as looking like a large crocodile.
Just months after rescuing flailing Newsweek from financial collapse, owner Sidney Harmon, who made a fortune as a pioneer in audio speaker business, has died, according to The Daily Beast, which merged with the magazine earlier this year.
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And then there's this, the BlackBtrry Water Game (pronounced, we assume, "BlackBattery"), a strange, typoed beast, which may mark yet another fundamental shift for the smartphone market as we know it.
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