Word: competitors
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...People is far from the only case in which major resources and talent are being lavished on cable channels watched by almost no one. espnews, a 24-hour sports-news channel launched in November, is available in only about 1 million cable homes. Its chief competitor, CNN/SI (which is owned by Time Warner, also the parent of TIME), has managed to corral just 4 million. The Fox News Channel and MSNBC, two network-backed news channels launched last year to compete with CNN, have passed the 20 million and 30 million marks, respectively. Yet their average audience, according to preliminary...
Still, when he grasps for the name of his arch-rival competitor as if it were the furthest thing from his mind, I can't help but wonder whether the introverted business philosophy both he and Dicensio are spouting is just a cover. No matter how forthright these guys sound, it's hard to believe that as businessmen each is indifferent to the other. Where's the competitive drive? Where is the ill will? Where's the killor-be-killed mentality...
...when he snapped up cigarette manufacturer Cigatam, as well as Sanborns, the cafe and convenience-store chain, and Frisco, a mining company. Through Grupo Carso, Slim now controls 30 companies worth more than $7.2 billion. Critics aside, he is considered to be a passionate Mexican nationalist--and a fierce competitor. Yanquis, take note...
...diluting the Communist Party's power. And the party leaders now have a vested interest in the economy's steady advance. As their Marxist ideology loses all legitimacy under the wave of money that has finally turned the country, after 150 years of sullen resentment, into a strong competitor with the West, their very survival seems to ride on their ability to keep the economy going...
...manager at HMV on Brattle Street was busy with an in-store concert given by James, and could only say that HMV was "sorry to lose a competitor, because it's good for the business...