Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Kelth Colburn. John Heyburn. Dave Pottetti, and Mike Koerner were running together at the two-mile mark 50 yards ahead of their nearest competitor. They stretched this lead, and then Colburn moved out to eventually win by to 16 seconds in 24:03 Koerner, Pottetti and Heyburn followed in that order...
...long run, no matter whether CBS, RCA or another competitor comes to dominate the new field, few would dispute the projection of RCA Executive Chase Morsey Jr. that it could be a $1 billion industry by the 1980s. EVR, SV or whatever is, as he put it, the first "personalized television" in a period when "mass programming will no longer completely satisfy the customer." Morsey's implication was clear: SelectaVision could be the answer to Rejectavision...
...with Italian refrigerators and washing machines, Dutch toasters and transistors or West German machine tools. What is more, with 17% of its labor force still working on farms (compared to 11 % for West Germany) and 50% of its exports accounted for by farm products, France simply is not the competitor for world industrial markets that it should...
...keep competitors from learning the size of their bids, the oilmen in the Anchorage Westward Hotel reserved rooms on either side of their own and the rooms above and below. A favorite joke around town went: "Are you in oil?" "No, I'm incognito." One company wrapped its bid in aluminum foil in case a competitor had an exotic camera capable of taking pictures through a manila envelope. Another consortium, headed up by Continental Oil, hired a private train at $12,500 a day to ply back and forth between Calgary and Edmonton for four days while executives prepared...
What was left of the CRIMSON rallied around to wage a battle to the death with the rebel editors. The "100 Days War" ended by June, when the Journal editors had had it, financially and academically, and the Crime emerged victorious, not unchanged. The presence of a vigorous competitor had forced the CRIMSON to become