Word: competitor
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It’s a given that the average minor league hockey player is faster, stronger, and more skilled than the average competitor in the college ranks. Thanks to his speedy entry into the AHL, Maki realizes that his staying power in the world of professional hockey hinges on the ability to expand his hockey intelligence...
...Carriers are still weighing their options. Some are considering the 787; others the Airbus' 350, viewed as the 787's main competitor which will be out in 2015. Delta, as it ramps up its international presence, could be on the books by the end of this year with the largest Boeing order so far, for 125 787s. But Delta, like others, has to wait. Boeing is sold out until...
...past three years--but it'll be hard to sustain that pace. Global competition shows no sign of letting up. Toyota's Lexus is starting to make inroads into BMW's European turf, while at home, rival Audi is turning up the heat, and Mercedes looks like a formidable competitor once again, now that DaimlerChrysler has agreed to sell off Chrysler to a U.S. private-equity firm...
BANK OF THE SOUTH First the Paul Wolfowitz scandal, and now this: at the end of the month, "Banco del Sur" will launch as a direct competitor to the World Bank, at least in South America. The brainchild of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who has long railed against the meddling of the Washington-dominated World Bank and IMF, the development bank got a credibility boost when Brazil, Argentina and others signed on as founding members. With the region's new oil wealth, the dream of locally funding big infrastructure projects without First World interference may be closer than ever...
Barack Obama must have been nodding in agreement. In his own address a few weeks earlier, Obama dwelled on "impoverished, weak and ungoverned states." China came up twice. He did linger over Russia but less as a powerful competitor than as a country too impoverished, weak and ungoverned to safeguard its nukes...