In terms of inter-BRICS cooperation, few projects beat a $30 billion oil pipeline in the planning stages that will stretch from Russia to India via Northwest China.
Well, it was RNC Chairman Reince Priebus that began beating a drum against these projects, and he did so on the grounds that the existence of Clinton movies were a de facto promotion of Hillary Clinton's potential candidacy for president.
For at least the fifth time in less than three years, the police are seeking the public's help in tracking down someone caught on video beating a dog in a housing-project elevator.
Here are some of the products and projects that are beating a path toward sustainable electronics.
A plan to direct an adaptation of Randy Shilts's Harvey Milk biography, "The Mayor of Castro Street," fell apart when Gus Van Sant's "Milk" beat the project to the finish line.
A new organisation called Celera Genomics will analyse the human genome at a single site in Maryland and, if all goes well, beat the public project to the sequence by a couple of years.This time, however, Dr Venter has been thinking small.
5 Gyres is also a partner in the "Beat the Microbead" campaign, a project of the Plastic Soup Foundation and Stichting De Noordzee of the Netherlands, which produced an app that lets consumers scan the barcode of a product to see whether it contains plastics.
Interest groups that oppose development have found that raising water issues is among the many bats in their bags available to beat back projects they find distasteful.
He determined that for Spotify to beat iTunes' projected $2.08 billion in 2013 revenues, it would need 12.34 million paying subscribers plus advertising revenue.
Barclays Capital reported that 13 of the 14 top health insurers beat their projected earnings in the last quarter, with profits coming in at hefty 46% higher than expectations.
This controversial film, titled Submission, was broadcast on Dutch television in 2004 and featured lines from the Qur'an, detailing a man's right to beat his wife, projected onto the naked bodies of several young women.
