Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly ready, willing and able," declares Richard Brackeen, vice president for Martin Marietta's space launch systems division. His firm and its chief competitor, General Dynamics, have long experience in producing rockets for the Air Force and NASA and, with the unexpected new demand for such launchers, would like to reverse their role. They would rent Government launching facilities and use their own rockets to orbit commercial satellites. The potential benefit: providing competition that would force lower launch prices and, in turn, lure more private business...
That the Sun fetched such a hefty price just after its main competitor folded was coincidental. Times Mirror Chairman Robert Erburu noted that his acquisition of the Abell properties, which include the morning Sun (circ. 205,000) and the Evening Sun (circ. 152,000), as well as two television stations and two magazines, had been in the works since April. Said he: "We saw a good opportunity and went...
...willing to run different events to help the team," says track Co-Captain Douglas Boyd. "He's a leader by example--Cliff's an amazing runner and a great competitor...
Quiet and unobtrusive off the court, Jernigan is an incredibly intense competitor whose court presence becomes downright fearsome when he dons his no-fog goggles. More than a few Princeton fans literally gasped in amazement when a particularly psyched-up Jernigan took the court during February's Harvard-Princeton match...
...mere hint of a comeback sent TV crews and reporters scurrying in pursuit of the aging superstar. After all, when he was retired ten months ago because of a leg injury, John Henry had won a record $6.5 million, $2.3 million more than his closest competitor. Now comes the news that the 1981 and 1984 Horse of the Year is in training again at Hollywood Park and will soon be back on the track. The change of heart apparently came last month after John Henry, 11, showed a hankering to race again during a visit to Kentucky's Keeneland race...