As such, we decided upon a simple set of metrics that best approximated real-world threats, that is, to try to test for attacks actually used by attackers.
Beckham will not be the best player at Real - but it will not be a shock because he was not the best player at United.
Retail salespeople are often the best resource for real-world information since they are on the ground dealing with customers.
Then, to judge whether people build languages around what their brains are best attuned to, he compared these theoretically best divisions with real-world dividing lines.
At the American MTV video awards in New York earlier this year, Eminem won two awards - best video and best male video - for his track The Real Slim Shady.
Press shots are often beautiful, but the problem with 'em is that they're usually about as real as Joan Rivers' face -- not the best way to get a real impression of what a device looks and acts like in the flesh.
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The watchdog found the best-available Treasury data suggested real-terms health spending was lower in 2011-12 than in 2009-10.
It is on the Philippines - the place they know best - that they write with real gusto.
"Donald Trump is best at self-promotion and real estate, " Wendleton points out.
These stories are moving and powerful, and we're going to start sharing some of the best of them -- because real people have to be part of this debate.
But perhaps the granddaddy of all real estate blogs, and certainly one of the best-known, is Curbed, which focuses on real estate in New York, a city whose inhabitants are perennially preoccupied with housing.
As a consequence, the dollar price of gold is the best, though imprecise, real-time measure of the price level.
That fictional scenario is the best way to gauge its real-world opposite, a scheme whose very name--Bluetooth--appropriately calls to mind the more depressing aspects of dentistry.
Bourdett: I should probably be more careful here, considering the last time I wrote Jeter off (after 2008), he went on to have one of the best seasons (fantasy and real-life) of his career (.334-18-66-107-30).
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We gave special honors to Philweb of the Philippines (top profitability, based on operating income as a share of sales), to Royal Ceramics Lanka of Sri Lanka (return on investment, a near quintupling) and to E-House (China), the real-estate brokerage, for overall best composite score.
Wipro ( WIT - news - people ), which is also expanding, agrees that finding the best people is a real problem, particularly in a fast-growing country like India, where there's a sizable gap between need and the number of skilled workers.
Enter tree lover Peter L. Malkin, a real-estate heavyweight perhaps best known for his lengthy battle with Leona Helmsley over control of the Empire State Building.
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One of the most important factors in whether a brand will hit the best-seller list is whether it solves a real problem for consumers, meets a genuine need, or makes life better in some appreciable way.
It is our hope that this information proves useful to a wide variety of audiences, including recent graduates seeking the best places for new opportunities, for real-estate agents advising their clients on the most promising markets, and for small-business owners researching markets with true growth potential.
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Using real-life cases is the best way to groom the next generation of crime-solvers, crime club founder Sheryl McCollum believes.
Meanwhile, much of the real story of America's best-known landscape goes untold, and as I began to trace it, I often felt like I was entering Bizzaro World.
Ben Affleck, coming off winning Golden Globe Awards for best motion picture drama and director for the real-life drama, received the award handed out at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
It would only be fair because over here, we have a real love-in for your best coaches and I am not sure that is a love that is fully requited.
The idea is that your smartphone realises through geo-location that you are approaching a participating merchant and, suggests, in real-time, how to best use the coupons you have on your smartphone.
The idea for Punchfork was simply to take that experience of browsing amazing food photos, relocate it to the web, and blow it up 1, 000 times larger with an automated feed of real-time recipes from the best food bloggers.
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The nation's best-known movie reviewer "wrote with passion through a real knowledge of film and film history, and in doing so, helped many movies find their audiences, " director Steven Spielberg said.
Rhapsody, the digital love-child of Real Networks and MTV, is best known for its DRM'd subscription music service.
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Over in Shanghai, real-estate shares and financials were among the best performers.
Best Buy ( BBY - news - people ) to offer real-time inventory information about product availability at local stores.
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