Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost from the time George Eastman fathered the snapshot, the biggest profits in the photography business have come from selling not cameras but film. Now Polaroid Corp., Eastman Kodak's biggest competitor in the $3 billion U.S. amateur photography market, is looking to cash in heavily on the same idea. This spring it will offer its supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing picture technology in a new camera called Pronto. Lighter and less cumbersome than the SX-70 original, with improved electronic circuitry, the black plastic Pronto will list for $66 but probably will be reduced by discounters to about...
...scandals in U.S. business history. As the world's largest accounting firm (annual revenues: $500 million), New York-based Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. took a heavy share of the blame. To help restore its image, Peat, Marwick about six months ago took the unprecedented step of hiring a competitor -Arthur Young & Co., one of the smaller among accounting's Big Eight -to scrutinize its practices. For a $500,000 fee, more than 150 Young accountants put in 12,000 hours of labor, studying the way Peat, Marwick audits its clients' books and interviewing 50 Peat, Marwick partners...
Psych was the word, as the Radcliffe swim team emerged from the locker room donning "Whale Yale" T-shirts. The team considered this foe their toughest competitor of the season and had been practicing strenuously in preparation for the big showdown...
...stuff is much more realistic. If we take a character like Spiderman, we say, 'What would it be like if there were a guy like Spiderman? How would he get along in the real world?' I don't think anybody ever thought that way at some of our competitor outfits. If there really were a guy with a big S on his chest, he wouldn't go into a phone booth to change...
...there is more to Pete Fitzsimmons the runner than just a list of accomplishments. "He has a splendid attitude, he likes to run, and he is oriented to working hard and steady," McCurdy says. "But even more, he's a great competitor...