Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pride among people at the bank has been enormous." Now that a comeback could be under way, he adds, many employees will want to stick around and try to redeem their reputations along with that of the bank's. Continental may soon rekindle its archrivalry with crosstown competitor First Chicago...
...track at Los Angeles, where he will compete in both the 800 and 1,500 meters. Coe has been training chiefly in and around London, closely supervised by his trainer-father Peter from the family home in Sheffield. The runner expects these Olympics to be his last as a competitor, but the subject may occupy his time for years to come. He is trying to complete a master's thesis on the economics and politics of track and field: "Every time I start to finish it, some joker of a country decides to boycott the Games, so there's another...
...most passionate competitor on the entire team may be a swimmer, Rick Carey, 21, the University of Texas junior, academic all-American, computer whiz and sore loser. "Rick not only hates to lose, he hates to go slow," says Coach John Collins of the Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, N. Y. "It's like he has a devil over his shoulder who drives him to go fast." Carey seems to have put behind him his notorious goggle-throwing days. But then, he has not had much occasion for temper lately. He is the world-record holder in both...
...strong dollar has helped Komatsu, Caterpillar's powerful | Japanese competitor, to gain ground. Because of lower labor costs and a cheap yen, Komatsu is selling similar machinery for up to 30% less than Caterpillar in places such as Latin America and Africa...
...killing has also added a nasty twist to an ongoing ratings war in Miami, where six news/talk shows crowd the air, four in English, two in Spanish. Soon after Berg's death, Tom Leykis of WNWS told his listeners the real name of a popular, less vitriolic competitor who works at a rival station under the pseudonym Neil Rogers, and urged them to call and harass him. "Rogers," who received death threats in 1980 for his opposition to the arrival of the Cuban boat people, believes that Leykis was enabling listeners to attack him "a la Alan Berg." Leykis...