Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon Capital Times (39,000) and Madison Newspapers, Inc., the papers' shared production and business arm. The cause of the strike: automation-related layoffs and pay cuts at MNI. Although about 40% of the workers walked out, the dailies have not missed an issue. Nor has their newest competitor: the weekly Press Connection, launched on Oct. 9 by members of the striking unions, who are working for it without...
...coach, and cause célebre of the Union uproar, is Ned Harkness, a tense, passionate competitor who eats poached eggs to soothe a nervous stomach and refers to hockey pucks as "black vitamins." A leg wound as an RCAF bombardier in World War II cut him off from playing, but at 56, he is legendary in hockey for building championship teams practically from scratch. He was doing just that for Union when he quit, and he did it twice before-first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then for Cornell. After his Cornell team won all 29 of its games...
Walsh was encouraged by several surprises. Peri Ozkum prevented an Eagle sweep in the diving with a second in the one-meter diving, and Sharon Beckman kicked past a B.C. competitor in the final leg of the 200 butterfly for a second place finish...
...respectably dull (though high quality) sweaters, shirts, bras and lingerie. This value-for-money formula has paid off handsomely: M & S's 14 million weekly shoppers give it annual revenues of $1.9 billion and profits of $184 million, both more than four times those of its largest competitor, British Home Stores. But M & S has so saturated the middle-brow market with its reverse-chic lines that it has little room left to grow there. So, eagerly, it is starting to change. Last month it opened its first "up market" store in London's smart Kensington district...
...stresses "positive attitude" and "personal accountability," and went so far as to import a hypnotherapist from Seattle to instruct the Longhorns in "deep relaxation and positive suggestion which eliminates the negative." Says Akers: "The players are committed. You don't come to Texas unless you're a competitor and committed. Mental concentration, though, is harder than physical preparation." As his players looked on first with awe, then growing respect, Akers and his assistants put in grueling 14-hour days. Their dedication proved contagious. Says Interested Observer Royal: "He is willing to pay the price in long hours, elbow...