Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Casually dressed, easy of manner, Arledge exudes the smell of success the way Joe Namath exudes Brut. Arledge is a restless competitor (when Son of Sam was caught, Arledge spent the night at police headquarters). He is also a confident gambler. He gambled millions on the 1976 Olympics, and made that sprawling assortment of track meets, wrestling and swimming contests a prime-time commercial success. Chronology and coherence may have been sacrificed as he zeroed in on the flashiest contests and concentrated on popular favorites, switching relentlessly from one arena to another, but the result was exciting television. Arledge liked...
...Damascus for a 3½hour session with Syria's President Hafez Assad who promptly shot down the whole idea of the working group." In a 45-minute news conference, the Syrian leader explained: "There is a possibility that this working group would be looked upon as a competitor to the Geneva Conference, and I do not think that any of us would like to look at it in this way." More ominous was Assad' s general rejection of the other suggestions that Vance brought. When asked if the American's visit had advanced peace the Syrian...
...which hope to attract some of Laker's customers, are sure to offer some rival shuttle of their own, or at least cut-rate stand-by seating on regularly scheduled flights. Some other transatlantic lines may do so too -but not Laker's state-owned competitor, British Airways. British authorities do not plan to grant British Airways a Skytrain-type license...
...account representatives, two trainees, six back-office assistants-announced that they were quitting, with no advance warning. Most distressing to Bateman Eichler was the employees' destination. They moved en masse across Shaw Avenue to open, on Monday morning, the brand-new Fresno office of Bateman Eichler's competitor, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis...
...game of musical chairs among brokerage offices? In the securities industry, as in the insurance and advertising businesses, specialized skills and customer contacts are all-important. Wall Street firms often find it cheaper to hire a competitor's employee than to train someone new, and that the easiest way to win accounts from a rival is to hire the brokers who service them. Even the firms that count themselves aggrieved may be wooing away employees from rivals. Only a month before its Fresno office defected, Bateman Eichler hired five members of the trading department of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton...