Word: outwitting
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...keep innovating, Google has to outwit and outspend the likes of Yahoo! and Microsoft for the best young brains. Even though few of Google's insta-millionaires have cashed in their stock options and quit since the 2004 IPO, Google is on a hiring binge, adding about 100 people a week. It applies quirky tests of talent. Google once put up a billboard on Route 101, the heavily trafficked artery that links the Valley to San Francisco, that said, in its entirety...
...when truck drivers, factory hands and bakers are in a skirmish with their circadian rhythms, the 56-year-old cotton farmer from Moree, in northern New South Wales, is in bed whirling his mind through a problem. Estens might be crafting a game plan to outwit a Canberra bureaucrat or thinking of a way to motivate a juvenile criminal offender; he might be trying to understand the power structure in a small town or finessing a schmooze assault on a CEO target. This social entrepreneur finds the wee, small hours a bountiful period for clarifying ideas about his self-appointed...
...special Pentagon task force with 150 ordnance experts has been operating since October 2003 to try to outwit the bombers. They have sent $460 million worth of electronic jamming equipment to Iraq to disrupt the remote devices that insurgents use to detonate bombs. Predator drones, robot bomb detectors and dogs have been deployed to sniff out explosives. "Hunter-killer" teams from the task force roam Baghdad in armored vehicles equipped with optical and laser devices to fry any bombs that are found. "This is a pro team of terrorists we're facing in Iraq, and we're working every...
Hawk-visaged Basil Rathbone embodied Conan Doyle's detective in 14 B movies, some transporting him from Victorian to modern London to outwit the Nazis. As Dr. Watson, Nigel Bruce was an ideal foil for the great...
Harvard’s advantage was soon snatched away when Cornell managed to outwit Boe and score two goals, the first at 10:37 and the second only five minutes later...