Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coal field for the purpose, according to Kennecott, of assuring its own fuel supplies. In the FTC'S eyes, the purchase was damaging evidence that Kennecott had plans to enter the coal business. That meant that when the copper company bought Peabody, it removed itself as a "potential competitor" in the coal industry. Since competition was at least theoretically diminished, the FTC decided that Kennecott was violating antitrust...
...message was the soft drink's familiar hourglass bottle flanked by two glasses, one marked M, the other Q. Thus opened what is becoming one of advertising's most bizarre feuds. It pits the nation's leading soft-drink maker, Coca-Cola, against its closest ranking competitor, Pepsi-Cola, in a taste bud to taste bud donnybrook that for sheer zaniness outdoes anything the ad world has seen in years...
...taped highlights and late-night live action. "Edited coverage," network officials call that abbreviated schedule, and at the last Democratic convention it paid off well. While CBS and NBC were carrying the usual speeches, floor demonstrations and mid-aisle interviews, ABC won half again as many viewers as either competitor by showing such drivel as The Mod Squad, The Super and Corner Bar. Despite that lead, ABC trailed the other networks in ratings during the late-evening hours, when all three focused on the convention: NBC won 8.2% of TV households...
...down since. In 1972, when she was 18, she threw 200 ft. 6 in. for an American record, the first of many that she set-and broke. The latest (218 ft. 3 in.) came last month at the A.A.U. championships in Los Angeles, where she outthrew her closest competitor by nearly 15 ft. The U.S. Olympic trials showed that the women's track and field team is substantially stronger than had originally been thought, but its best hope for a gold medal still rests in the hands, and arm, of California's Kathy Schmidt. (At Munich...
Embree is noted for his ability to psyche out his opponents, a major plus in his battle with Stones, who has been susceptible to such tactics in the past. An intense competitor, Embree's smooth-style has enabled him to re-write the Harvard record books during a sparkling intercollegiate campaign...