Pepsi -- despite its longstanding runner-up status in the competition to sell the most soda -- now holds the lead in fast-growing segments like iced tea and coffee, and bottled water.
The two sides' trade supremos, America's Robert Zoellick and Europe's Pascal Lamy, were longstanding personal friends and fellow long-distance runners.
Now that Godolphin, the longstanding rivals of his Coolmore employers, have a live runner, it must be more likely that he will consider running his star filly Minding in an attempt to deny them a big moment of glory.
After basking in the "great honor" of Russian President Vladimir Putin's praise, Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday defended Putin against longstanding accusations that his regime has carried out murders of journalists who oppose him.
Dutch powerhouse Doutzen Kroes this year bolstered her lucrative L'Oreal cosmetics contract and longstanding Victoria's Secret deal with H&M, Emilio Pucci and Miu Miu appearances to snag runner-up.
The runner-up was Cryoocyte, a Cambridge, Mass., startup that is developing a way to freeze fisheggs, a longstanding challenge.
But how longstanding is longstanding?
Adidas is a longstanding partner.
"It's a longstanding belief".
A loyal and longstanding deputy to Ms. Shulman, Ms. Sheffield, sister-in-law of former Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, is said to be the front-runner among those on the magazine's masthead.
