Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steve Niemi, Harvard's only other competitor at the meet hammered his way to a tenth place finish in the you guessed it, hammer throw...
Infuriated, De Gaulle ordered the creation of a competitor, and three small computer firms were eventually welded into the Compagnie Internationale pour I'lnformatique, known as CII. It never really gave Americans much competition. GE increased its holding in Machines Bull to 66% and then sold its interest to Honeywell in 1970. Under the leadership of a former IBM engineer, Jean-Pierre Brulé. Honeywell Bull earned a $25.3 million profit in 1974 on sales of $534 million and enjoyed a solid 18%-to-20% share of the French market. By contrast, even with massive infusions of government capital...
...annual banquet last Saturday, the track team announced its elections of tri-captains for next year: the thinclads chosen to share the posts were Sam Butler, Mel Embree and Joel Peters. Butler has been a standout competitor in the hurdles and the middle-distance events. Peters has contributed strong performances as a middle-distance runner. Embree is a nationally ranked high-jumper who has cleared "2" this year...
Died. Avery Brundage, 87, president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72); of a heart attack; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A 1912 U.S. Olympic track competitor and later self-made millionaire in construction, Brundage became the most powerful figure in international amateur sport as head of the I.O.C. Viewing the Olympics as a "20th century religion" free of "injustice of caste, race, family or wealth," Brundage autocratically, ruthlessly and sometimes pettily railed against "commercialism" in sport, upholding an increasingly elusive ideal of amateurism and several times axing popular athletes for minor infringements...
...Griliches, professor of Economics and chairman of the department's graduate admissions committee, last week blamed the bad national publicity the department endured following Leontief's resignation for the loss of several highly-rated graduate school applicants in Economics to MIT, Harvard's main competitor...