There's another reason why it is so hard for top-performing advisers to beat the index over the long term, says Mr. Tint, even when their numbers were powered by genuine ability rather than sheer luck.
Some 65% of people questioned thought open-top cars were not as sexy as hard-tops.
It turns out Ford appears to have the tightest inventories, with three models among the Top 10 Hard-to-Get Cars.
They have smaller networks, smaller subscriber bases, and a hard time competing against top-tier behemoths that sport the newest and hottest devices.
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Replay Networks and TiVo both offer appliances that record television programs on command, saving them on a hard drive in the set-top box.
Today, cable systems have to provide costly set-top boxes equipped with high-capacity hard drives to every new customer that signs up for DVR service.
The ideal solution, then, would involve car-makers hard-wiring the necessary controls for the top 20 percent of functions into physical buttons and knobs.
Why not push digital music and video stored on a PC or set-top box with a hard drive to any TV or stereo system in the house?
Nonetheless, given Mr Fresco's career at the top of such a hard-nosed conglomerate as General Electric, he looks likely to make Fiat even less of a family concern.
Mendis grabbed two key wickets in his opening spell when he removed hard-hitting batsmen Yuvraj Singh (the top scorer with 23) and Mahendra Dhoni, while Muralitharan made short work of India's lower order.
Moreover, Buckley encourages cross-functional communication and shuns top-down information flow that he believes makes it hard for companies to adapt quickly.
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With its 15-inch floating screen, table-top dome housing all the hard bits, and a chrome neck joining the two, it's been modelled on a sunflower.
Doherty points out that pay-TV subscribers also stand to benefit from lower energy use if they can swap their set-top boxes for devices without hard drives that connect to remote storage servers.
Of course, the story is over-the-top and absurd and tries too hard to be relevant.
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Those figures have been replaced by a mix of hard-working and skilful personnel, ranging from experienced top-level professionals to academy graduates and young talents plucked from the Championship.
"If only because of rent, it is hard to save a lot of money in top-tier cities for the middle class, " said Jeff Walters, a partner at Boston Consulting.
Morgan Chase, have found it hard to break into Wall Street's top half-dozen firms, the bulge bracket.
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Some LPs have learned from hard experience that most PE funds can lay claim to top-quartile performance by selecting the benchmark that makes them look best.
England will truly find out on Saturday whether they have what it takes to get back to the top of world rugby - they have a hard job on their hands.
Studies show a correlation between more women in senior positions and superior company performance, though it is hard to know whether more sexual diversity improves performance or top-notch firms promote more women.
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Casual baseball fans would have a hard time recognizing the long list of names that flopped as top-five picks over the years.
Most of the regulatory ideas are still expressed in somewhat general terms, so it is hard to be sure if they are reasonable or over-the-top.
The question of the hour, when Mr Osborne sits down tomorrow, will be how this modest giveaway to Britain's "hard-working households" compares with any change in taxes for the top one per cent.
It will connect to SonicBlue's ReplayTV set-top boxes, which can record TV programming to a hard drive.
Staying on top in the fast-changing world of technology is hard, too.
"They bowled with a lot of discipline and made it hard for us to score, " said the opener, who top-scored with 60.
The big problem is that the benefits of hard work have been increasingly concentrated at the top while earnings of lower- and middle-income workers have been stagnant for decades.
To me, an ornate primping station seems a little, well, vain: delovely in theory but, like a certain over-the-top sequined dress that hangs unworn in my closet, hard to pull off in practice.
If global brand name and prestige are a top-most major factor in decision making, Harvard is hard to beat for some years to come.
Keothavong battled hard but Pennetta, a winner of nine WTA Tour titles and recent top-10 player, was able to exert more pressure when it mattered.
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