Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Formula Juniors were built in Italy three years ago as a safe and sane training car for Grand Prix drivers. Appalled by the dearth of first-class Italian drivers, Count Giovanni Lurani, an oldtime competitor himself, got together with drivers and automakers to devise a small sandlot version of the bellowing, big-engined (2,500 cc.) Ferraris and Maseratis-just as the familiar midget racers are pocket-sized editions of the Indianapolis "big cars." To make it safe, the Formula Junior got its dinky engine. To make it cheap, the class was restricted to using parts from standard touring...
...majors, the agreement eliminates a competitor in a way that is not likely to irritate Congress, which rumbles from time to time about the monopoly status of baseball. But the deal does not settle which league gets what cities. New York, which has been without a National League team since the Dodgers and Giants followed the gold rush to California, will certainly get another National League team. The rhubarb should be fierce over the other cities...
...unseating an incumbent Democratic Governor in a year when most Republican candidates got roundly trounced, Rockefeller began showing the unmistakable flush of presidential fever. And since Richard Nixon already towered up as the almost certain Republican presidential nominee in 1960, Rockefeller's presidential hopes inevitably made Nixon a competitor, apart from any disagreements on national issues...
...saying flatly that a stock is selling too high, they realize that it is perilous to project earnings five or ten years into the future. Particularly in the growth sector, technology is changing so fast that a new product, a competing process, a better method hit upon by a competitor can collapse a stock in a hurry...
...Nerve. "I'd still like to invent the products," says Fairchild, "but the business has become too big for that." Fairchild believes that it is not enough simply to develop a product that is slightly better than a competitor's. He had no interest in bringing out a movie camera that was only an improvement on cameras on the market. But when his re searchers came to him with the idea of a home movie sound camera, he gave en thusiastic approval. "Fellows from the camera company came to see me and said they could produce...