Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eligible for participation in the Olympic Games, a competitor must not have received any financial rewards or material benefit in connection with his or her sports participation...
...Marshall Plan worked faster than anyone had thought possible. By 1951, Western Europe's industrial production had soared to 40% above prewar levels, and its farm output was bigger than ever. Western Europe's current status as a vigorous economic competitor of the U.S. testifies to the plan's effectiveness...
Geoff Stiles was the sole Harvard competitor to rack up points in Saturday's events, placing a hairs-breadth third in the pole vault behind Bill Hartley of Rhode Island and Brad Turley of Maryland. All three had a top score of 15-8, but some of Stiles' earlier misses hurt...
...current trend toward special-interest publications. The newest subject of concentration is ethnic pride-magazines addressed to English-speaking Americans with foreign backgrounds. Last October saw the first issue of 1-AM (for ItalianAmerican), with items on Italian food, wines and the arts. It was quickly followed by a competitor, Identity, a sophisticated blend of Italian American news and culture. Now comes Nuestro, an ambitious four-color monthly for Hispanic Americans. Nuestro hit newsstands last week at $1 an issue with a splashy cover story announcing "The Latino...
...talked about business showing a commitment to the salvation of downtown Detroit, other people listened. First he set up the Detroit Downtown Development Corp. as a subsidiary of Ford Motor and assigned top real estate and financial people to staff it. Next he discussed the project with his competitor, Richard C. Gerstenberg, then chairman of General Motors, over lunch at the GM building; by dessert, Gerstenberg had pledged his active support. Four months later, GM announced that it would invest $6 million and form a subsidiary of its own. (Gerstenberg eventually put up another $6 million.) With Ford Motor...