Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...networks snap, crackle and pop for rating points. The fray has always been fierce, but the brawl for the top spot is now more frenzied than ever. After gradually closing in on Good Morning America for more than a year, the Today show has beaten or tied its ABC competitor five weeks in the past three months, thus breaking GMA's 163-week hold on first place. Though Today still spends most of its time as a close second,* the taste of victory brings fresh confidence to the NBC corridors. "We think we will be No. 1," says Today...
...York Daily News (circ. 1,391,000), and the Times Mirror Co., owner of Long Island's Newsday (circ. 542,000), which is making a strong bid to break into the New York City market. Either company, however, might purchase the Post only to close down a pesky competitor and take over its press plants...
Paul Gompers, the Harvard men's team's sole competitor, fared worse in the collegiate 10,000 than did Wiley, despite having run a Harvard record 29:05.6 time in the 1984 Relays...
Kaufman plays for kicks, and for the team, but she is still a fierce competitor...
...idea of the origin of the figures quoted." The Pentagon is undecided as to how it will recoup the money. Said a Pentagon spokesman: "We could continue to withhold overhead payments until the account is filled, or we could ask for a lump payment." The Northrop Corp., a competitor, last week suggested one form of punishment for General Dynamics: to share some of the Government contracts with it. Northrop offered to sell the Pentagon about 400 of its newly developed F-20s, sleek fighter jets it is having trouble marketing, for substantially less than General Dynamics' comparable...