Word: competitors
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Throughout the years, the two have provided each other with a fierce competitor as well as a fierce friend...
...Hitech has been competing on the regular chess circuit, matching wits only with humans. It has a solid master's rating of 2376, well behind former World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, the top-ranked player in this tournament, with a 2700 rating, but Hitech is a dangerous enough competitor to have caused a minor furor last August by scoring a first-place finish in the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship. It is the 22nd-ranked player in the National Open...
...With a young lady like Meredith it's easy to take for granted the amazing competitor that she is," Co-Captain Paul Mayer said. "She consistently runs championship-caliber performances and her attitude is good. She's a big inspiration for the men and women...
...studied the Japanese language at Keio University in Tokyo and later helped manage a Swiss executive-search firm in Japan. Trading Places is especially full of fresh anecdotes and information gleaned from his industry contacts. He reports, for example, that IBM last year offered important technology to a leading competitor, Digital Equipment, rather than allow Digital to become more dependent on Japanese suppliers. The book also shows how President Reagan did not get too excited about trade matters. During one White House briefing on Japanese technology, Prestowitz writes, President Reagan "at times appeared to doze...
Four years ago, Pratt & Whitney helped form a five-nation consortium to produce a competitor to the CFM56, but that effort has been plagued by setbacks. The partnership initially claimed that the new engine, called the V2500, would be 14% more fuel efficient than its GE counterpart, but that estimate has been scaled back to 9%. Moreover, the V2500 lost a major customer in February, when West Germany's Lufthansa, citing technical flaws, canceled an order for 40 engines and turned to the CFM56. Now Pratt & Whitney is staking its comeback on its new large engine, the PW4000, for which...