Back on the streets of Teaneck, I decided to research what I thought might be my competition.
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"I'm putting doubt and fear into the hearts of my competition, " says Wright with a big smile.
That is a lot of reading, but I must admit it gives me an edge on my competition.
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Even worse, if that S-corp is my competition, the prevailing policy of taxation gives them a rather hefty unfair advantage.
"The Blue Train is my competition and also my supplier, " he explains.
Wanting to learn everything I could about my competition, I kept a detailed database, and I recorded which female profiles were popular.
As a Marine, i know that I have to work hard, and prepare myself for a challenge everyday to be better than yesterday, and be better than my competition.
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My friends weren't really good competition on my consoles, since their only practice was when they were visiting my house.
Since my first Prelim competition two years ago to the World Championships last summer it's been an absolute whirlwind but this is the ultimate.
The day I brought my son home from the hospital, I also won the Daily Candy Startup Competition for my business, Taste Savant.
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"A special group of players is being assembled here and I hope my arrival will increase the competition for places, " he said.
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On top of a searching interview, I was also to face a rigorous test of my news judgement, in competition with all the other would-be David Dimblebys.
So my guess is that this competition will be closer to the dropping your business card in a bowl at the trade show than trying to win a new Ford from Ford.
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One of them is one of the competition documentaries called "My Kid Can Paint That" about this four-year-old girl who's a prodigy painter.
Now, although Berkeley won the stock pitch competition, it was in my personal opinion that Miami should have won.
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In 2001, a team led by Lockheed Martin (one of my many consulting clients) won the competition to develop the plane.
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Not my idea of noble, free market competition.
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My personal trainer, Malenna Saunders, who helped me get into shape for my wedding in the fall, suggested the competition.
In July 1961, four months after my brother took up the trumpet, a competition for individuals and groups took place for concert bands nationwide.
"But in competition, I tend to pull my punches, " Roel says.
This is still true: I sit in a weird trough of being better at games than all my friends, but far worse than any competition I find online in multiplayer modes.
"When we were doing RoboCup (an international robotics competition) it did not enter my mind that the learnings I would take from my students I had trained could be used to build a company like Kiva Systems, " he says.
My view is that any attempts to specify how competition will work instead have the effect of retarding it.
When I was eight years old, I told everyone the new mud flap with the rhinestone on my Schwinn was the prize for winning the biking competition at the Knights of Columbus.
After we had been married for a year and some of the energy had gone out of the relationship, I did wonder if my passion might have been pumped up by the competition for her.
"We have approximately 1, 200 state, regional and county agricultural fairs as members and none of my staff is aware of a large-egg competition at any of them, " says James Tucker, chief executive of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions in Springfield, Mo.
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