Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company can certainly teach A&P much. Though highly secretive about profits, the group owns more than 2,000 stores in Germany and Austria with annual sales of $2.7 billion, and it places stress on gourmet food lines as well as in-shop butchers and bakers. Says one admiring competitor: "Haub took a store in Berlin, reduced the number of articles for sale from 6,000 to 1,200 and found that sales actually went up." A&P, which must slim still further before it can hope to recover, will not miss the lesson that less can mean more...
...million to $3.4 billion, and profits hit $262 million. Growth has continued under new Chairman Robinson, the workaholic scion of an Atlanta banking family and protégé of Family Friend Clark. But Amexco has largely saturated the market for high-income holders of credit cards, and competitor Visa and some major banks are also trying to sell their own traveler's checks. Earnings from Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., acquired by Amexco in 1968, are large (48% of the company's profits) but cyclical. Amexco stands to get a much higher profit by investing...
...provide for $12 million in wage increases over the first three years, with further raises to be negotiated later. "Not a bad package," conceded an official of the Teamsters, one of the unions involved. In an editorial, the Post expressed "joyous satisfaction" at the "continued life of our worthy competitor" but noted what it called the Star's "hardball" bargaining tactics. The Star responded with an editorial that thanked its rival for the kind words and observed wryly that the Post had not exactly played "beanbag" with its own unions. After pressmen struck the Post in 1975, the paper...
...Crimson earned the remaining 20 points with a sweep in the 2-mile run and a victory in the 1-mile relay. Kat Taylor led the field in the 2 mile, 30 seconds ahead of the next Harvard competitor...
...narcissist may appear relaxed and friendly, but inside, claims Lasch, he is desperate for a meaning beyond himself. He is also a pent-up competitor for the approval and rewards of a distant authority figure. To the author, this authority is now vested in the bureaucratic state, which offers neither moral guidance nor philosophical distinctions between good and evil...