Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ones that don't choke, the ones who get the key hit with the bases loaded, two outs, and losing by a run in the bottom of the ninth, the players who make the shoestring catch for a first down and maybe a touchdown. In this case, the competitor who can, with a single ball remaining, somehow collect the all-important victory points...
...deal will make Matsushita the third biggest seller of TV sets in the U.S., trailing only Zenith and RCA and easily surpassing its two Japanese rivals, Sony and Hitachi. One executive of a Japanese competitor exclaimed that the news was as "sensational" as "Toyota buying out Ford" would...
Unfortunately for the competitor, bicycle racing is an expensive sport. The initial investment for a bicycle runs into the hundreds of dollars. Unless a racer is very good, and able to find sponsors or support himself from prizes, he will have continuing expenses for tires and other repairs. Because the popularity of bicycling has blossomed in the past few years, it is possible that sponsors will be easier to find. At present the finances of racing are still tight...
...Harvard's last hope to place a Crimson competitor in the finals was quickly squelched, as Rutledge went down to an agonizing 5-4 defeat in a fence-off with Cornell's Anastasios Sarikas. For a few brief moments Rutledge seemed destined to ride the momentum of his nine-bout win streak into the finals. He jumped out to a quick 4-2 lead over Sarikas, but the final touch Rutledge needed to advance failed to go his way and Sarikas rallied to eke out a 5-4 decision...
...biggest of all corporate elephants; by comparison, MCI, whose principal asset is a $64 million line of bank credit, is scarcely even a gnat. Yet MCI last week bested Ma Bell in a court test that, in the eyes of A T & T officials, makes it a serious competitor. AT&T Chairman John D. deButts is, in his own words, "marching up and down the land" complaining to business audiences about the unfairness...