Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says John Schuerholz, vice president of the Kansas City Royals: "In years past I considered Weaver among the best managers in baseball. Now I think he is the best of them all. I hesitate to say that he's mellowed, really, because he's as fiery a competitor as ever. But he's matured as an individual, and he's gotten to know so much about the game. Those tremendously aggressive instincts are now tempered with a tremendous amount of knowledge...
...slick catalogue catches on. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is itself now heavily dependent on the money it brings in by selling its reproductions, and its administrators are deep in elaborate reproduction promotions of their own. Their true objection to Rockefeller is that he is a competitor, and not that he's defacing...
...antitrust largely involves traditional questions, such as whether a company conspired to fix prices, divide up markets or drive a weak competitor out of business. A commission appointed by President Carter to review antitrust laws and procedures earlier this year recommended that the standards of proof be relaxed in favor of the Government...
...years, Harvard had won the Rowe Cup (for most points in the combined varsity, J.V. and freshmen heavyweight races) 17 times. The next closest competitor was Yale, with six wins. The Worcester Bowl, awarded to the winning varsity heavyweight eight, had resided in Cambridge from 1964-70 and the again from...
...book), Halberstam details how the unscrupulous Harry Chandler in the 1880s hooked and crooked his way to control over subscription lists for L.A.'s three morning dailies. Then, by combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor out of business. Later, with the help of a bribed federal reclamation engineer, Chandler stole the water from a distant Southern California valley in order to turn his thousands of desert acres into subdivisions--thus laying the basis for the Chandler real estate fortune and the Chandler dynasty...