Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest all-round athlete? ABC-TV and sundry promoters went through the motions of finding out last week by staging a kind of mini-Olympics called "The Superstars." Ten top professional athletes were invited to compete in any seven of ten events, excluding their specialty. In return each competitor received an $8,500 chunk of real estate in a new Florida resort community called Rotonda West and a chance at $122,000 in prize money...
...surfaced long enough to sputter, "I quit!" Afterward, he panted: "It was like I was throwin' punches at the water and the water kept hittin' back. My big aim was to keep from drownin'." The Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench was a more serious competitor in the golf tournament. But two drives into a mangrove swamp erased his early lead and he finished second to Stefanich, who posted a 41 for the nine-hole event...
...which controls at least two-thirds of the entire computer market and has a reputation as a tough and unrelenting competitor, had been accused in the suit of all sorts of monopolistic mischief. With the settlement, IBM executives disposed of the antitrust complaint without having to admit to the charges...
...refuse to talk to Eagle reporters. An attempt last year to give the community a conservative newspaper failed after six months. "The Eagle doesn't speak for the middle segment of American society because it doesn't understand us," says Leon Phelps, who edited the short-lived competitor. Under-35 readers complain about the Eagle's refusal to advertise or review X-rated films. The paper also refuses to abandon male-female distinctions in its help wanted...
Hervé has been a fierce competitor ever since. Between 1957 and 1964, in fact, he was suspended nine times in the U.S. and Canada for various rule infractions committed in his zeal to win. The biggest blow came in 1965 when the U.S. Trotting Association lifted his license for "repeated violations"-cutting off other drivers, for example, and betting on races. Stunned, Filion reformed and was eventually reinstated by the U.S.T.A. Ever since he has performed like a man possessed. Last summer he was upended in a nasty three-sulky accident that left him with torn shoulder ligaments...