Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more-even if it meant hunting tigers. This was a nuisance and expensive; to cover the cost, he raised the price of his flints to 15 clams a pair. And to his astonishment, nobody seemed to care; they went right on buying his flints instead of the ones his competitor, Blug, was selling at the old price (until Blug began to give away tiger teeth too). Og is honored today as the inventor of the Premium and discoverer of the great Something-for-Nothing Syndrome...
Like Exeter's Principal William Gurdon Saltonstall, whom he calls "a fast friend and a mortal competitor," Kemper is the first to ask whether his school is using its wealth wisely. The last thing he wants Andover to be is a shoehorn to slip grade-getters into prestige colleges. He worries about the lucky-me attitude that afflicts many Andover boys. He wonders how to teach them a sense of humanity and public service. He wants the school to serve. "We should be identified with public schools," he says. "Our job is to be available to anyone who wants...
...Ferrari to a world championship last year-is in fifth place, hopelessly out of the running. The new leader and likely champion is the other Hill, Britain's 33-year-old Graham Hill, who has 36 points and a virtually unassailable 15-point lead over his nearest competitor in the complex scoring system...
...steelmaking in the early 1900s. Led by the late Essington Lewis, a single-minded empire builder who made himself Australia's "Mr. Steel," the company doggedly pursued efficiency, threw up new plants, cornered rich ore and coal reserves, and by 1935 had gobbled up its only major competitor. But it was the pell-mell postwar growth of heavy industry and construction in Australia that gave B.H.P. its biggest forward push. With all Australia virtually its private preserve, the company more than doubled its output in a decade. Equity capital flowed in for the asking as eager Australian investors flocked...
...operating committee of five Brazilians and four Americans. Result is that while other U.S. subsidiaries are plagued by expropriation threats and nagged by gringo-baiters, Willys booms unmolested. Last year its profits were $6,900,000 on sales of $104,800,000. "The government," says an envious Yankee competitor, "wouldn't dare attack Willys. It would have 48,000 angry people to answer...