Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disney will launch a second vessel, the Wonder, next June, and Eisner grandly hopes for a 10- or 12-ship fleet, sailing from Florida, California and the Mediterranean, within the next decade. He's betting that the cruise industry, which fills its cabins with discounted fares, can accommodate a competitor that charges 20% higher than the norm (starting at $860 for a three-day cruise, including airfare, compared with $648 on the Royal Caribbean line's Nordic Empress). The ship is heavily subscribed for now, partly because passengers who booked early sailings that had to be canceled were given tickets...
...free at microsoft.com starting Aug. 18, helping to squelch complaints about the new software. And Gates? lawyers will ask this week to have the federal suit thrown out of court, arguing that depositions of Netscape veeps have done nothing to show that Microsoft tried to force its smaller competitor out of the market. This may be a kinder, gentler Microsoft, but it?s still on the offensive...
ALAN SHEPARD was many things. He was a patriot, a leader, a competitor, a hero, a friend. When we seven were named America's first astronauts, Al stood out. I had first met him when we were test pilots, but not until the Mercury program did I see the determination, toughness and courage of Alan Shepard...
...price war with Airbus. "The commercial-aircraft industry should be enormously profitable because it is a fortress franchise," Demisch says. He argues that with just two manufacturers selling to about 450 airlines, "I see no reason at all why prices [of planes] are as bad as they are. Neither competitor has any real notion of price discipline...
...particular outrage that the quintessential cherry product, pie, had been essentially hijacked by the deep-pocketed, frozen-food mass marketer Sara Lee. When a forerunner of the giant company bought out a local pie plant in 1979, the writing was on the wall for any prospective local competitor. One rival, frustrated by the pie-slice prohibition, tried something especially bold last year. She mashed up her pies, put the fragments in plastic cups and called them cobbler. No trouble from the pie police...