Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following coach Pappy Hunt's strategy, harrier stars Kristen Linsley and Darlene Beckford jumped out to an early lead, spent the remainder of the race widening it, and showed up alone at the finish line, 100 yards ahead of their nearest competitor. Linsley won the meet in 17:22, an outstanding early-season time and the second-fastest course time ever recorded for a college woman. Beckford followed at 17:41 despite strained back muscles, an inspiring performance from this gutsy sophomore...
Though few citizens would argue that nonprofit subsidies should be eliminated altogether, commercial publishers are not happy about them. Last March Entrepreneur Mortimer Zuckerman purchased the small Atlantic Monthly (circ. 337,000) only a few months before his main competitor, Harper's, went nonprofit. "How does the Government expect privately held magazines to survive?" asks Zuckerman. Geo, an expensively produced monthly introduced in the U.S. last year by West Germany's Gruner & Jahr, goes up against the nonprofit National Geographic, Natural History and Smithsonian. It is not easy. As a for-profit enterprise, Geo finds it must charge...
Like the early explorers or like prospectors trekking through the dusty gold fields, each casting director cherishes his discoveries. Selznick also claims Richard Dreyfuss, Candice Bergen and Telly Savalas. "She's discovered the world," says Competitor Jane Feinberg with the most delicate hint of sarcasm. Marion Dougherty, who has been in the business 31 years, gave Warren Beatty his first TV role, in the old Kraft Theater. Says she: "He was a terrible actor then-we laugh about it now-and totally charming." Dougherty also turned up Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Stalmaster's finds include Jon Voight...
...absence of so many world-class athletes made for a pleasing unpredictability in Moscow. A judo competitor from the tiny Republic of San Marino (pop. 20,000) admitted: "It isn't the same without the Japanese. Even I have a chance here now." At the same time, the Games produced three dozen world records, the same number as in 1976, and some moments of high drama...
...results to date have been bullish. Merrill Lynch maintains its traditional dominance in selling stocks and bonds, and is three times as large as its nearest competitor, E.F. Hutton. In addition, the firm last year took in twice as much from its other financial operations ($1.4 billion) as from its securities-trading business ($642 million). In the first half of 1980 alone, it earned $100.8 million, almost as much...