Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, manufacturing secrets rarely keep for long in Detroit. A few years ago, for example, Ford men concluded that a competitor was building a superior master brake cylinder. They designed a similar one, but modified it to use two bolts instead of four. Sure enough, two years later they found their two-bolt design appearing in the brake cylinders of the competitors' cars that they dismantled. At present, auto engineers are focusing particular attention on how rivals go about reducing the weight of their cars in order to placate a public increasingly concerned by the cost of gas guzzlers...
...revenues could encourage Egypt to continue its trend toward less ideological policies. With more funds, it will be able to resist the blandishments of oil-soaked, militantly anti-American Libya, upon which it has been heavily dependent for aid. Indeed, the line might even attract some business from a competitor: the Israelis' Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline. Still, the U.S. and Egypt are playing down the political possibilities. Egypt's government-controlled press has not even acknowledged that Bechtel and Kidder are American firms...
...long term goal is to implant a greater understanding and spirit of cooperation in America towards its growing industrial competitor, Masataka Usami, vice president of Nissan's American branch, said last week...
Rojas broke away from his nearest competitor, Penn star Dave Merrick, at the three mile point and cruised home to a whopping 40 second margin...
...union will ask from Ford and G.M. the same terms it got from Chrysler. And Ford and G.M. will follow the pattern set by their little brother and approve a contract that is comparable to their competitor...