Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, IBM filed a lawsuit against Memorex, a large peripheral maker, alleging use of IBM trade secrets. The company also brought out a model of its new System/370 that can be equipped with its own disk drive, making it difficult for a user to add a competitor's gadget. The independents have retaliated with price cuts of their own, and more are expected...
Harvard faces its third competitor in four days at 7 p. m. tonight when M. I. T. makes the trek across Cambridge to play in the IAB fencing room...
...college almost fell back onto his unmade bed when I showed him my credentials. While waiting outside his hotel room, I had talked to those in line. When I dared to question the selection of 1876 as a terminal date for the job description ("American History to 1876"), my competitor for the position gave me a short and slashing lecture on the process by which distinct historical eras come to a close or begin. When I mentioned my reservations about the quality of the students, he dismissed my maunderings with the statement that I might as well apply to Harvard...
...encouraging Alpine situation is somewhat offset by a question mark in the Nordic events. Nordic captain Chris Ferner, the team's only Class A Nordic competitor, has yet to jump this year and in McCollom's words, "just isn't fired...
...American competitor proffering much the same line of goods as Severs poses another challenge. "Right now it's sort of funny," Severs says complacently, "we're both avoiding one another like a plague. He's concentrating on the Americans and I'm focussing on the Cambodians. We'll see who's right." It shouldn't be too much of a problem, though, "Maybe one of us will shut the other out. Or maybe somewhere on down the line we'll start collaborating on different items. If the price is right...