Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that person." Hicks succeeds in making his character less of a chump than he might seem. Jamie plays the largest part in Nola's love life, and is especially useful as a foil for the other two men. After hearing a poem Jamie has composed for Nola, one competitor remarks "Aw, aw, that's the worst piece of shit I've ever heard...I don't mean to badmouth the brother but..." and proceeds to badmouth...
...Hinault's challenges served to validate LeMond's achievement. "I have pushed Greg; I have made him go over me. Now after all this, he is capable of competing with anybody, anywhere." The unrelenting competitor had never quite believed that his teammate wanted to win the Tour de France, wanted it in that visceral way that French boys from small villages want it. As much as Hinault wanted it. But when Greg LeMond stood on the victory platform and heard his national anthem, he lowered his head, fighting back tears. Hinault saw the emotion, and his eyes widened. He stared...
...often that companies cheer the news that a competitor has beaten them to market with a hot new product. But something like that happened last week when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved commercial production of a new vaccine against hepatitis B, a virus that causes an incurable and sometimes fatal liver disease and strikes an estimated 200,000 new victims every year in the U.S. Developed by Merck, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, in partnership with Chiron, a small (1985 sales: $6 million) biotech firm in Emeryville, Calif., the product is the first genetically...
...bipartisan foreign-policy establishment after the war -- and unlike more recent policymakers -- Harriman was not an ideologue who regarded the Soviets as an implacable "Evil Empire." As a banker and entrepreneur, he believed it was possible to deal with the Soviets the way a businessman might treat a tough competitor: with firmness and patience...
Probst, 62, will stay on as vice chairman, but he did not conceal his mixed emotions last week. Said he: "We are totally convinced that we could have continued to be a viable competitor to IBM. But we recognize that, being a public company, we are not always masters of our destiny...