Word: competitors
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...nation's fifth largest metropolitan area (pop. 4.4 million); its News and Free Press are the ninth and tenth largest U.S. dailies. The owners of the morning Free Press (circ. 632,000) acknowledge that the paper lost $9 million last year. They assert that the all-day competitor, the News (circ. 643,000), lost twice that much in 1982, even though it has a solid 60%-to-40% lead in advertising linage, largely because the News offers discounted ad and circulation rates. News executives decline to comment. Losses have accelerated during the recession and the deep slump...
Tramiel believes in depending on as few outside suppliers as possible. Commodore makes its own chips to avoid being caught in a supply or pricing crunch. A ferocious competitor, Tramiel once splashed full-page ads in major newspapers across the U.S. that proclaimed, COMMODORE ATE THE APPLE. For several years, to capture the important education market, he offered schools two PETs for the price...
Congratulations on your article about my husband. However, I would like to take exception to your description of our daughter's performance at Madison Square Garden as "mediocre." A roomful of ribbons and trophies attests to the fact that she is a fine horseback rider and competitor. To dismiss her ride at the Garden as mediocre is insensitive as well as inaccurate. Might I suggest the word unsuccessful...
...managed first-place finishes in only three events high jump, 55-meter dash, and 200-meter run. In all three cases, however, Harvard's competitor was sidelined due to injuries UMass could not come up with a single...
...beautiful drink--for beautiful people" is being challenged, not by a competitor, but by its own parent firm, Coca-Cola Bottling...