Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some among my patients," says Wood. But there are exceptions. Dr. Spoerry once had to leave a patient behind and take off in a hurry to avoid being speared to death by warriors urged on by an angry woman witch doctor, who saw the airborne medic as a competitor...
...even, in one case, a banker considered sympathetic to labor) have been notably cooperative, and probably deserve some of the credit for having kept the German economic boom remarkably free of strikes. The ten labor directors of steelmaking August Thyssen-Hütte approved a takeover of troubled competitor Rheinstahl, which is still awaiting Common Market clearance, knowing that it would mean the elimination of some duplicate jobs. Says Thyssen Director Karl-Heinz Weihs, who worked as a roll-turner for eleven years: "If we hurt the profitability of the company, we are also jeopardizing the security of our workers...
...White House aides, only three have stayed on the job without a break: Henry Kissinger, Patrick Buchanan, Ronald Ziegler. Of the original Cabinet, only George Shultz remains, and he has shifted from Labor to Treasury. Nixon now holds the record for Cabinet appointments: 31 in five years; a close competitor is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed 25, but then F.D.R. served more than three terms...
...motorist to whom he refused to sell gas on Saturday night swung a hose at him, shouting: "I am going to get some gas even if I have to kill somebody." In Hanford, Calif., a station owner who had closed at the President's call found that a competitor across the street was open on Sunday and doing a hopping business. So the patriot hauled out a pistol and shot up six of his rival's pumps...
...work: seem dumb but price conscious. Again, after a while, he'll probably cut the price 10 per cent to give you "what you've got your heart set on." The most level-headed technique is to tell the salesman, "I like the Marantz 2040 but your next-door competitor is offering it for $25 less...