Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indefatigable Maurice Stans, either while he was still serving as Commerce Secretary or soon after he had resigned to head the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President. Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, was in touch with two others, including American Airlines, whose chief competitor, United Air Lines, happened to be a Kalmbach client. The sixth was visited by a lower-level fund raiser whose credentials were personally verified by John Mitchell, then serving as Attorney General. Not that Nixon's men had to get rough. George A. Spater, until recently the chairman of American Airlines...
...Lord, the engineer in charge of the lower Charles, has said he thinks the Metropolitain District Commission was sold a bill of goods. There are also as yet unapproved plans for a $500,000 plant in the Basin, which could handle four times as much polluted water as its competitor in Storrow Lagoon...
...Well, there's no question Wallace is a significant factor, and he has a strong following all over the country. I found him to be the toughest competitor in several of the primaries. I don't see him ever winning the Democratic presidential nomination, but I think he is a force to be reckoned with...
...Recent government restrictions on emigration have scarcely slowed the exodus, and those who want to leave simply slip across the border at night. "We are at the bottom of any economic indicator you want to take," laments Francisco Pinto Balsemào, editor of the weekly Expresso. "Our only competitor is Albania. Even the East European countries have passed...
...deep debts. If the Tulsa-based company is forced to pay off the $21.9 million claim against it before collecting at least as much from IBM, warned Telex Attorney Floyd L. Walker, "there is no way Telex can stay out of bankruptcy and become any kind of viable competitor." Walker's plea provoked a charitable response from IBM, which agreed not to press for the money until the case is finally decided...