Word: beating
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...want Virginia Tech to beat Florida State in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 4. It'd be nice for the Hokies to finally get some respect. And for the Seminoles to lose some...
...down teams met this weekend at Northeastern, and, as one would expect, the up team beat the down team as the hosts defeated the Harvard women's basketball team, 61-42, on Saturday...
...SERENA WILLIAMS After Martina Hingis felled Williams' sister Venus, Serena redeemed the family name by beating Hingis at the U.S. Open. It was only her second year as a pro, and she ended it as No. 4 in the world. Her Sampras-like serve scared everybody but her older sister, who at the Lipton Cup had enough psychological edge to beat...
...carbonated sugar water, Douglas Ivester stood out for his missionary zeal to spread Coca-Cola around the world. An accountant by training, with an eight-day-a-week work ethic, Ivester predicted a decade ago that he would be chairman and CEO of Coke by Nov. 1, 1998. He beat that brash forecast by a year when Roberto Goizueta, his charismatic mentor and predecessor, died suddenly of lung cancer in October...
...fought primarily in Chechnya. Sunday's Russian parliamentary election saw an unlikely surge by a party cobbled together only last month with the backing of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, signaling that the war in Chechnya has turned the former head of the intelligence service into the man to beat in next summer's presidential election. The Communists held a predictable lead with around 28 percent with most of the vote counted Monday, but the Unity party backed by Putin was running a close second with an unexpectedly high 24 percent, while a second pro-Kremlin party, the Union of Right...