Perhaps because we feel that we are in a race or competition?
On Sunday, he was in a four-man last-chance race to stay in the competition.
Forty-six states and the District of Columbia submitted comprehensive reform plans to compete in the Race to the Top competition.
The IRB council will make their final decision on 28 July, with South Africa, Italy and Japan also in the race to host the competition.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, tripling his fortune in a year, has put his cofounders and unheard-of suppliers of games on the map, as well as spurred incalculably valuable competition in the race to exploit social media.
And another tool or piece of equipment which is now available is called BloomReach and brands such as Williams-Sonoma, Orbitz and Neiman Marcus, among others, are using it to their advantage as they too try to win, er, stay ahead of their competition in the race for relevance.
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Before tablets and Ultrabooks took hold, many PC vendors were engaged in a race to the bottom where competition was only possible through ever cheaper parts, not breakthrough design.
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Buckmore Park is to hold another competition kart race in memory of Henry Surtees on 18 July, when his father will rename a bend on the circuit "Henry's Bend".
England faces competition from Australia, Japan, the USA, Russia, Mexico and Indonesia, as well as joint bids from Netherlands and Belgium and Portugal and Spain, in the race to host the 2018 competition.
Many races are held to stave off cabin fever in the dead of winter, such as the longest running race in Concully, Washington in January, and the competition held at the Fur Rondy Festival in Anchorage, Alaska, in March.
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So, a race to the top has begun in our schools, but the real competition will begin when states apply for the actual Race to the Top grants.
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The couple were among 200 contestants, mostly in their twenties, for the competition which asked questions on race, religion, prejudices and sexual attitudes.
How do you do it without succumbing to the kind of direct battering of the competition that we see currently in the US presidential race?
And this support will not only reaffirm our commitment to states engaged in serious reform, it will also expand the Race to the Top competition to include local school districts that are also committed to change.
Since many consumer cameras now have at least a five-megapixel resolution, which is enough to make a good 8-inch-by-10-inch print, the competition in cameras has shifted away from the megapixel arms race toward other features that help people take better pictures.
Thomas now hopes to return to competition at the end of the month in an Under-23 road race in Cornwall on 24 April.
Sixty years before Dartmouth undergrads schussed Mount Moosilauke in what is popularly regarded as the first downhill ski competition in the U.S., and 40 years before the first downhill race in Europe, miners--bored and snowbound in California's High Sierra--had already raced.
Moments before the relay race, for example, nobody had picked up the bibs runners are required to wear in competition.
The Race To Infinity saw more than 360, 000 people across the UK vote in the three-month competition.
The race seems to be on in various sectors, with companies jockeying to get a leg up on the competition by announcing that they will start to expense options.
In the last day of London's swimming competition, the American women won the 4x100-meter medley relay race, setting a new world record with a time of 3:52.05.
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