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If any American cities are likely to be included on a list of world beating places in fifty years it is likely that Austin will be first among them.
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It sparkles from a world-beating technological breakthrough, then shatters when its market hits a bump.
Sheltered domestic markets, steeled by high regulatory walls, once led to world-beating spreads and profits.
UBS, the most important task is to save its franchise as a world-beating wealth manager.
Experienced senior executives are convinced that this downturn will produce a new crop of world-beating businesses.
Some of Beijing's planners would love to think that state intervention is the route to world-beating innovation.
But all that time spent finding ways around daft rules would be better devoted to world-beating innovation.
The Japanese, on the other hand, with weaker family connections, have had a genius for creating world-beating conglomerates.
The West Indies cricket team, once a world-beating symbol of Caribbean unity, has been brought low by inter-island squabbles.
And one example it used to point to as a source of pride was the world-beating high-speed train system.
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Many in France - including on the right - think that combination is sustainable, thanks to French companies' world-beating manufacturers.
Yet Sony turned that perception on its head almost single-handedly, with a couple of world-beating products and a well-defined brand.
Web-based traffic and weather reports, corporate news or stock prices, all beamed to a handheld phone--it seemed like a world-beating treasure.
Nokia needs to produce world-beating hardware designs that tempt buyers away from rival devices like the iPhone and Samsung's Android-powered Galaxy S3.
The Chargers shocked the football world by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game to get to the Super Bowl.
Hotshot snowboarder Barrett Christy, 32, has won a world-beating ten winter medals.
That continuing spirit of innovation should provide some cause for optimism that we can find ways of turning world-class science into world-beating businesses.
Ebay charges its sellers to list their goods on the world-beating site, while Taobao got its fast start because selling there is free.
Whereas one of the government's aims is to build world-beating firms, another is to encourage successful firms to employ the workers of rotten ones.
The organisers hope those world-beating dimensions will be enough to earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest ostrich sandwich ever.
With its love of horse racing, sports and casinos, and its world-beating technology industry, America ought to be the natural home of this burgeoning field.
Tech City has the royal seal of approval and a healthy marketing budget - now it needs to show it can generate jobs and world-beating businesses.
The decline would be steeper and faster were it not for a continuing, if modest since it is already world-beating, increase in longevity of old people.
But it's unclear how either of those two measures would directly boost competitiveness, or the ability of euro-zone businesses to produce world-beating goods and services at low cost.
Bruce Jenner, 1976 decathlon winner and Wheaties-box legend, reaped millions giving motivational speeches, sports-commentating and hawking products for world-beating companies like General Mills, Visa, Coca Cola and Merck.
Toyota unveiled the world-beating Lexus in the U.S. in 1989.
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The boxer lost the 1988 Seoul Olympic super heavyweight final to Lennox Lewis, but in 1992 he became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world after beating Evander Holyfield.
As the economies of Australasia move on out--enjoying a world-beating pace of growth that now again includes the integral economy of Japan--the bar for such a select list gets higher.
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