Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Briggs finished the year at number one. He is a talented player with a wide variety of shots and surprises. Barnaby has spent the preseason trying to add "a tactical sophistication" to Brigg's abilities. "He has matured a great deal into a challenging competitor," Barnaby said...
...moment of crisis in August, and eventually had to cast Superstar's 40 parts in a two-week marathon session. The smell of burning pot and ambition filled the theater, as some 500 candidates, more than a hundred each for the major roles, tried out. One unsuccessful competitor recalls that you couldn't tell the Judas candidates from the Jesus candidates, except that some guys "would periodically kiss someone and burst into gales of maniacal laughter." Many were from the Superstar concert companies, as well as from 14 companies of Hair, O'Horgan's biggest...
...Will that approach work? Some businessmen affirm that controls aimed at large companies and unions would effectively hit smaller ones as well. Says Maurice F. Krug, president of Technology Inc., a firm involved in photographic research: "Kodak is our biggest competitor, and they don't even know we exist. But we have to base our prices on theirs...
...match time at the Chelsea, a Chicago pub that draws dart players he way Raquel Welch attracts glances, and after several hours of steady practice, the first competitor toed the line and braced to throw. "He was really tired from all that practice," remembers Manager Joe Cassidy. "On that first throw, his follow-through was beautiful. But the dart stuck...
Aggressive Ideal. Learson, whose present yacht is named Nepenthe (says he: "She's the Greek goddess who induces a pleasurable sensation of forgetful-ness"), went to work as a salesman for IBM immediately after graduating from Harvard in 1935. Offered a higher-paying job by competitor Remington Rand, Learson nonetheless chose IBM because its machines were electrical rather than mechanical. He rose to general sales manager at a crucial time. Learson still admits that parts of computer technology are "over my head," but in the early 1950s he and Tom Jr. strenuously argued, against the elder Watson...