Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...gain some sense, courses in "kid lit" are becoming part of the curriculum at most major universities. The adult who was once the main focus of medical and psychological scrutiny now has a competitor. Today, says Historian Philip Aries, "our world is obsessed by the physical, moral and sexual problems of childhood...
...that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human is usually waiting in the wings. It is those child-heroes and heroines who become the first extraparental guides to the world outside the front door, and the main competitor to television's inanities...
...Danbury, Conn., was founded in 1959 and cost its parent company, Condec, at least $12 million before making its first profit in 1975. It now produces 40 Unimate and 15 Puma robots a month, and will have estimated sales this calendar year of $42 million. Its chief competitor: Cincinnati Milacron, which makes the sophisticated T3 robot and expects 1980 sales of $32 million. It will soon open a new plant in Greenwood, S.C. Sprouting up are newcomers like Automatix Inc., of Burlington, Mass., which was founded last year with $6 million from, among others, Harvard and M.I.T. Giants like...
...eyes of one competitor, Nolo's books are too detailed. "Most of what is available today is designed for either fourth-graders or professionals," says Paul Hasse, 26, a Rhodes Scholar and the founder of Help Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT) in Washington, B.C. HALT'S guides are aimed at readers between those extremes. In contrast to Nolo, only one member of HALT'S nine-member staff is a lawyer. Supported by $15-a-year dues from 30,000 members, the two-year-old group devotes considerable time to lobbying for legal reforms and lambasting the profession...
...match that was actually less competitive, Phills scored a 16-4 decision over a 6-ft. 9-in., 395-lb. giant, who was dazzled by the quick takedowns of the Crimson competitor...