Take a bad beat on the Cowboys laying three?

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He'll get beat bad and go out with critics howling he hung on too long or win a belt and quit as an I-told-you-so champion.

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If Australia, who hit 175-7 in 31.4 overs before the bad weather hit, beat Pakistan on Wednesday they will play in Saturday's series finale instead.

BBC: Rain hits India's final bid

Our favorite characters fly faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall buildings in a single bound, beat the bad guys and stroll away with nary a scratch.

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But, we're also seeing the president, he did it at this news conference today, he did it in a speech yesterday in Cleveland, talking about the success stories that he says are not getting through, that are not able to cut through the steady drum beat of bad news that comes out of Iraq.

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The tenth anniversary of the SPIVA Scorecard is more bad news for mutual fund managers who try to beat the markets.

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The decline wasn't as bad as analysts had expected, though, and Seagate handily beat estimates for both sales and revenue.

NPR: Stocks Gain After Unemployment Claims Fall

With Talbots, the earnings would actually beat the estimates, but the company coincidentally had bad news at the same time as the earnings announcement.

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Ostensibly, the shift is to let customers count on a lone upgrade date for all of their connected devices, but let's not beat around the bush: the longer intervals are bad for any subscriber whose desire for a new phone or tablet doesn't perfectly dovetail with their contract length.

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Many other iReporters said they also felt bad about exercise as kids and posted their own ideas for pleasurable alternatives that could help beat obesity.

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