Growing up, Brenda said, Dave, Connor and Wesley, the Robertsons' youngest son, competed constantly and Dave, who was smaller than Connor, excelled at tennis.
A gleeful provocateur whose love of the limelight competed constantly with his disdain for fame, Singh was a self-proclaimed failure in law and diplomacy who turned to writing in the 1950s, soon after India's 1947 independence, and quickly became a force in Indian journalism and literary circles.
Hannah Lora Nicolass) and Jenn (Madison Turner) compete constantly to be best friends with Britt (Laura Weiner, top right, with, clockwise, Bryce Payne, Ms. Nicolas and Ryan Mikita).
In the real world, traditional-media critics and even some online critics compete constantly, unrelentingly, with the rest of the well-wired world for influence.
A small number of innovators and investors may have earned disproportionate billions as the I.T. industry grew, but they got that money by competing to constantly improve their products and simultaneously lower prices.
The alternative, he says, is to operate in an atmosphere of "poison" as a competing faction "constantly trying to put little trophies on the mantelpiece to show we are winning victories".
In today's economy, corporations freely roam the globe for the most efficient, lowest-cost sources of supplies and labor, while American workers are told that the way to compete is constantly to improve their skills with training and education.
Box effectively competes by constantly iterating on its product, focusing on enterprise even when Dropbox caught on, and good partnerships.
The list is short for a reason - the market doesn't need more than a handful and these companies who work very hard to ensure that they are hard to compete with, constantly enhancing their platforms and tying consumers to ever-deeper relationships through new devices and services, many of them at cost or free.
From the time we open our eyes in the morning until the time we fall asleep at night, working women are balancing competing priorities, constantly weighing everything we do against everything else we should be doing.
Spoiled by Chinese tech companies, Chinese consumers are becoming increasingly particular and difficult to please, which in turn forces companies to fiercely compete to constantly improve quality and price of services.
