Word: competitors
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Yesterday Stuart D. Shapley '99, a candidate for council president, challenged his competitor Beth A. Stewart '00 over e-mail to a duel during which he promised to "redeem myself as an officer and a gentleman by running you through with my rapier, then methodically dispatching that shaggy horde you laughingly refer to as your campaign staff...
Even though the Harvard players are excited about the weekend's results and the confidence it gives them for the rest of the season, they still expect some difficulty and refuse to overlook any competitor as a possible defeat...
James, who is expected to play as one of Harvard's top seeds this season, was a USTA competitor and winner of two of three of the National Court Championships...
...capital-consuming restaurant division to focus on businesses that add more value: Frito-Lay snack foods and Pepsi. Sound familiar? Pepsi can now open another front in the cola wars--probably in the fountain business, where it has been weak. "Pepsi has not been that strong of a competitor [in this segment]. Coke has pretty much had a free run, and that's about to change," says Gary Hemphill, vice president of Beverage Marketing Corp., a beverage-consulting firm...
Imagine, then, the, er, disappointment that must have been building in chairman Bill Gates' office as membership in his main competitor, America Online, soared to 9 million, while MSN's stalled out at 2.6 million. Making matters worse, MSN has hemorrhaged money--according to one analyst, up to $250 million as of last year. By last week rumors were flying through Wall Street that Gates was ready to put his online flagship on the block. A Web journal, TheStreet.com even posted a suggested retail price--$1 billion, about what AOL paid for CompuServe--and quoted an unnamed Microsoft executive...