We beat the traffic, Paul got the table he wanted and everybody was home by nine.

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The Redwood City players left their hotel at six, to beat the traffic.

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But with just 10 minutes to go, as some fans started to leave the stadium to beat the traffic home, things started to go very wrong.

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The reasons, however, are different: while in China my fright stemmed from high speeds and the creative maneuvers many drivers employed to beat traffic, in India the primary reason for my concern was the generally poor quality of the roads.

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The Hurricanes not only beat Maryland but also treated Duke like a traffic light in a twister, thrashing the then-No. 1 team by 27 points.

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If the lights weren't there, naturally we would approach slowly and carefully and see what other people were doing and filter through, but the traffic lights make us speed up to beat them.

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Greenbrier (GBX) today reported a quarterly profit that beat estimates helped by increased rail traffic as a result of higher demand from the U.S. energy market.

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