For a while, it looked like thin, lightweight laptops would help boost the fortunes of companies that had beaten one another silly over cheap desktop machines.
Moreover, Wales have not beaten one of the Tri-Nations sides on their home turf since overcoming Australia in 1969, a 1987 win over the Wallabies having been played in New Zealand.
He is bullied and beaten until one day an old man gives him a bag of crocodile tongues.
Sixth seed Li, who came into the Sydney tournament off the back of victory in Shenzhen, China, made Wimbledon runnerup Radwanska work for her triumph, saving an incredible seven match points before finally being beaten after one hour and 32 minutes.
No-one had beaten her up, she wrote, and one guard gave her a pep talk when she was crying in her cell.
When Drogba swept home his shot to Neuer's right, an English team had beaten a German one on penalties.
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Kasparov had beaten the machine one year earlier, and for the second event, IBM pulled out all the stops, hiring top grandmasters to improve their program, spending millions on splashy print and TV advertising.
The ball thudded to the ground, and this much was clear: Despite Brady's three previous championships, there remains one team he has not beaten when it has mattered most, one team that can reduce the coolest quarterback of his generation to desperation and defeat.
The X-Factor has struggled in the ratings this year, often being beaten by its BBC One rival Strictly Come Dancing.
Federer's win sets up an intriguing encounter against Davydenko, who has beaten the world number one in their previous two encounters.
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Williams cranked up the pressure as the heat subsided with the roof closed and Kuznetsova, beaten in all but one of her five previous meetings with Williams, lost her composure in the fourth game.
Morocco has bid three previous times for the World Cup while South Africa, a long-time favourite to get the 2006 edition, was beaten by Germany by one vote after a sole executive committee member decided to abstain.
Runako Morton tried to guide down to third man and was beaten by a quicker one from Haq, who then dismissed Lendl Simmons next ball when the Trinidad and Tobago batsman tried a similar stroke and got an inside edge into his stumps.
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Beating Moya is the second time in two months that the 28-year-old Behrend, ranked 98th in the world, has beaten a former world number one.
Also on Wednesday, Caroline Wozniacki's terrible 2013 continued when the number one seed was beaten in straight sets by China's Zheng Jie at the Brussels Open.
Before the player exodus took place Bangladesh were beaten 3-0 in a one-day series in Australia.
Those who spoke out against extremism (the current federal health minister, Ujjal Dosanjh, was one) were often beaten, bombed or killed.
"Uday's never been one to follow the beaten track and has a sixth sense about spotting hidden opportunities, " says Mahindra, who's been happy to let Kotak run the show and now holds 4% of the bank.
World number four Williams has beaten Sharapova, current world number one Victoria Azarenka and two other former world number ones in Caroline Wozniacki and Jelena Jankovic on her way to the title, dropping only 17 games in six matches.
Born in Kentucky in a working class family, as a fifteen-year-old he was beaten so badly in what was one of the first registered hate crimes in the state that he needed a series of surgeries that required two years.
France Info radio said at least some of the photographers took pictures before help arrived -- and that one of the photographers was beaten at the scene by horrified witnesses.
Kvitova was troubled by a stomach muscle injury and despite leveling at one set all was well beaten in the decider as Kerber won 7-6 1-6 6-1 in two hours 14 minutes.
That put beaten Twenty20 finalists Somerset through to their second one-day final of the season.
But beware: Not a single one of these ten funds has beaten the market over the past three years, and, worse, they tend to be pretty darn expensive.
Ms al Qurmazi's lawyer Reem Khalaf told the BBC that on one occasion while she was being beaten around her head, the blindfold slipped and she saw Ms al-Khalifa.
But over the same period, data from research firm FactSet says, investors in Chinese companies have on average barely beaten inflation, in dollar terms, by one percentage point a year.
Based on our polling and that of others, the outlook for who will be elected President can be summed up simply: Barack Obama can be beaten, but the Republicans may have no one who can do it.
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