Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even managed to contribute a line to the script. He shared dinners and lunches with his subject and spent long evenings playing pool on Hoffman's own table. "When we first met, I was winning consistently," says Winfrey. "By the time I had filed my reports, the real competitor had emerged. He beat me regularly...
...locked in debate over its future. Typically, it was letting mini-skirted secretaries and bearded writers have as much say as its directors. The argument was not over policy but money; Ramparts needs at least $300,000 to clear its debts. No one believed that both Ramparts and a competitor could survive. The question was whether the staff should follow Mitchell's plan to reorganize while in bankruptcy and seek new funding, or buy Hinckle's idea of starting all over under a new name. Said Mitchell of the uncertainty surrounding the magazine: "The whole staff could leave...
...something like the student-worker upheaval of last May and June. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, Europe's largest-and by any measure its proudest -glass manufacturer, was fighting for its corporate life. Still more astonishing, it was battling against an American-style takeover attempt by a much smaller competitor, Boussois Souchon Neuvesel. Last week the great glass battle ended with Saint-Gobain overpowering the upstart by sheer financial force...
Rebuffed in merger feelers toward Saint-Gobain, BSN quietly bought 10% of its competitor's 11.5 million shares. Then, in December, Riboud sprang his frontal attack. Backed by three big banking houses, BSN offered to exchange convertible debentures with a face value of $46 for Saint-Gobain common stock, then selling for $29. Such tactics, common in the U.S. and Great Britain, had never before been tried in France. Much to BSN's surprise, Saint-Gobain did not take long to fight back strongly...
Bargaining Point. IBM's future has been based on its computers and its competitive prowess. Now the future may depend on the courts. Last month the company was charged with monopolistic practices in a civil antitrust suit brought by a competitor, Control Data Corp. Two weeks ago IBM was the target of another suit, brought by a customer, Data Processing Financial & General Corp. And last week IBM was hit by the most important suit of all. The Justice Department climaxed a long investigation by bringing its own antitrust action-the biggest of the Johnson era-against the company...