Word: competitors
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Fast, tough, intense, and ranked in the top 20 nationally, Hartwick found a worthy competitor in the Crimson...
...annually. He picked up $2.3 million worth of financing in February by selling 32% of his company to a group of five venture-capital companies. He hopes to expand the chain to 1,000 restaurants in ten years. At that pace, D'Lites could become a formidable enough competitor to give even McDonald's a case of the shakes...
Frustration and injured pride mark Korea's reaction. Annexed as a colony by Japan in 1910 and abjectly poor and totally dependent upon the US for its survival after the devastating Korean War. Korea has recently emerged on the world stage as a new industrial power and formidable economic competitor. Delegations from third world countries and southern states such as Alabama beat paths to Korea's door seeking investments. Justifiably proud of along history and sophisticated cultural achievements, in recent years Koreans have regained an acute faculty of national and racial pride and basked in this belated recognition. Koreans...
Usually such intelligence gathering is done legally, if deviously, by searching trade journals or eavesdropping on conversations in airport waiting rooms. Other times it is more blatant. Tennant, a maker of floor-maintenance equipment, was awarded $500,000 in damages last April from a competitor, Advance Machine. Two managers of the rival firm admitted sifting through trash containers outside Tennant's Oakland, Calif., office for sales leads. General Motors transplanted a grove of 30-ft. evergreens to block a favored vantage point of photographers trying to shoot long-range pictures of new models at its Milford, Mich., test track...
...they have been almost as perilous for the second wire service. U.P.I.'s longtime owners, the Scripps and Hearst newspaper chains, were anxious to sell; they were absorbing annual losses of up to $7.7 million. At times it seemed that newspapers kept buying U.P.I, just to maintain a competitor for A.P. (which draws 1,299 of the 1,704 U.S. dailies, vs. 629 for U.P.I.). Says Executive Editor David Lawrence of the Detroit Free Press: "We felt that if A.P. were the only game in town, it would be easier for it to become a little arrogant...