It is better to be number two in a fast-growing world than top dog in a stagnant one.
The other thing I've noticed is -- and I notice particularly from you all -- and I use "you" in an editorial sense -- is this emphatic, unrelenting belief that there is no reason why America has to be number two.
Of course, everyone knows that it is better to be number one than number two, but the Wallet Allocation Rule makes it possible to calculate precisely what this impact is.
The company will gain significant size and stature through its purchase of MCI, but will still be the number two telecommunications company in the U.S., behind the newly merged SBC-ATT.
The two teams will be battling for the number two place in the official Test rankings.
And you have that, it should be your chart number two, or Exhibit 2 .
Meanwhile the former Celtic manager was keen to praise former assistant boss Gary McAllister who is to be confirmed as number two to Gerard Houllier at Aston Villa.
Soon after, he exited the Houston, San Antonio, Memphis and Nashville markets, following the edict drilled into him at GE: that a company should be number one or two--or be able to reach that goal--in every market.
As for the FSA, there is an apparent contradiction between its lecturing of Barclays to clean up its culture earlier this year and the approval it gave for the promotion of Mr del Missier to be Barclays' number two.
The regional carriers will also be looking closely at number two long-distance carrier MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ), which has itself been the center of acquisition rumors.
Instead, the total number of commissioners will be capped at a rotating two-thirds of the number of member states.
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Number two would be the Theatre Square Grill at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Consideration number two would be the advances in the rendering of 3D interfaces using JavaScript, as in the forthcoming Famo.us framework.
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Ford's number two will be former Maidstone striker Steve Butler, who has held senior coaching positions at Leicester in the Premier League and at both Hull and Gillingham.
Feinstein will be number one, and there are 23 other candidates vying for number two.
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But how much better to be Western Digital Corporation, the number two disk-drive maker at the time?
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If Japan had regained its internal energy--say, through remarkable technologies in resource recovery and efficiency, beyond the celebrated hybrid auto engines--the world's number two economy could be zigging while so many others are zagging.
Dan Meridor, whom Mr Netanyahu forced out of his cabinet a year ago, has left the party and announced his candidacy for prime minister as a centrist (he and Mr Shahak will eventually decide between them who will be the candidate and who the number two).
Point number two is we should be looking at electric cars and how can we produce more effective electric cars, cheaper electric cars, here in the United States.
Of the 9 parties I attended (a relatively low number, to be sure), only two checked that I was invited.
The true number is expected to be somewhere between the two figures.
Patients will be followed for two years, and the number of heart attacks, deaths, re-hospitalizations for heart problems and heart surgeries will be counted.
In the practical test, the number of mandatory manoeuvres will be cut from two to one to allow more time for the independent driving section.
And it points out that judges have given permission for just two of their number to be investigated for corruption in the past 20 years.
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Participants have to choose a number between zero and 100 that will be two-thirds of the average choice of the others taking part.
Previously, U.S. officials had said only that up to 25, 000 U.S. troops would go, although sources have been telling CNN for about two weeks that the number would be around 20, 000.
Number two, don't just be satisfied with applying that analysis to new regulations, look back at the old regulations to see if there are some that we can start weeding out.
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