Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after a stroke; in Manhattan. The son of an Indiana haberdasher, Norell first gained success as a costume designer for silent movies. In 1941 he teamed with Manufacturer Anthony Traina to produce stylish ready-to-wear fashions on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, quickly establishing himself as a leading competitor of the Paris couturiers. In 1960 Norell opened his own firm. Simple, almost prim necklines were his trademark, elegantly tailored pantsuits and sequin gowns his specialty. Norell's creations became known as the "Rolls-Royces of fashion" with price tags of up to $4,000. Though they were worn...
Carpetbagger. It was no small task for Robinson to don what Rickey described as an "armor of humility." As a track, basketball, football and baseball star at U C.L.A., he was a belligerent competitor who always prided himself on "reacting spiritedly when insulted or scorned." As a lieutenant in the Army, he had, in fact, been threatened with a court-martial for refusing to sit in the back of a bus. The toughest task of his career, he once recalled, was learning "to conquer and control myself...
...case-that IBM dominates a giant industry as no other U.S. company does-is practically incontestable. The Justice Department estimates that some 70% of all revenues spent in the U.S. last year on general-purpose digital computers went to IBM, v. 8.1% to Honeywell Inc., its nearest competitor. Last week's legal ploy left the Government maximum bargaining room for a later out-of-court settlement. It also may string out the litigation for several more years, forcing IBM to continue a growing policy of caution toward smaller competitors...
...what about that modern Holy Grail the career, which woman either sacrifices for marriage or is condemned to pursue as a second-class competitor? Miss Decter believes she knows a dirty little secret. Women don't really want work-as-necessity, work as it is for a man. "Discovering for themselves how very difficult-how fraught with stress and anxiety-is the activity of making one's way in the world of work," most women, in their hearts, cherish smaller ambitions than they may militantly pretend...
...grain company can be better than its information. Banks of ever-chattering telex machines pump a daily flood of intelligence, some in intricate code, into Cargill's headquarters: a competitor's wheat bid in Latin America, weather conditions in Australia, political jockeying in the Middle East, rumored tax increases in Japan. In the chateau's former living room, a dozen or so executives scan an electronic quote board which tells them the price of soybeans in Chicago, wheat in Kansas City, rapeseed in Thunder Bay and oats in Winnipeg. On the basis of that information, Cargill executives...