Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...definitely hurts to lose Billy as a competitor," Fish continued. "A unit can't function at its best when it has an internal disagreement. Quite obviously it's going to hurt to lose a player like Billy...
...Bill is a fiery competitor on the court," Fish said. "He's so competitive that he loses control. He is a very nice person off the court...
McDonald's has cooked up some popular new products too. Its McD.L.T. sandwich, a lettuce-and-tomato burger packed in a two-compartment box to keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool, has proved to be a beefy competitor to Burger King's Whopper and Wendy's Big Classic. The McD.L.T., introduced nationally early last year, is the company's biggest success since Chicken McNuggets debuted in 1983. At the moment, McDonald's is test-marketing a more unexpected offering: McPizza...
...brought such success to the Apple Macintosh. Though the basic PS/2 is already being shipped and the higher-priced models will go on sale later this year, the new software will not be available before next year, a delay that gives breathing space to Apple, IBM's biggest competitor. Apple's computers already offer many of the features, including an advanced graphics capability, that will not be available on the PS/2 until 1988. In the hours following IBM's announcement, Apple's stock rose 5 points. Nonetheless, IBM proved last week that it can still set the agenda...
...such invasions of privacy, especially when they are working on a company- owned system. Recent court actions provide plenty of examples. In one case, the Government used computer backup tapes obtained by the FBI to help prove that a Pratt & Whitney employee was selling sensitive pricing data to a competitor. Lawyers for the employee argued that the FBI had violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search by seizing messages from a storage device that constituted his personal "electronic file cabinet." The appeals court disagreed, saying that since he did not own the machine on which the messages were stored...