Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Logan won 24 of 27 games at the five-day tournament to finish a full five matches ahead of the second place competitor...
...carried so far in 22.5 million cable homes, a record number for a start-up cable channel, but still far behind CNN's 68.5 million. (CNN is owned by Turner Broadcasting, which is in the process of merging with Time Warner, parent company of TIME.) And a new competitor from Fox, due in October, won't make life any easier...
Before a visitor has even left Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, he is loudly assaulted by the city's pride in itself: "Awakens as a world leader," says one postcard, among the "American-Made Collectors' Souvenirs and Spoons" in an airport gift shop, and another calls it ''a competitor's paradise." Terminal videos instruct you on how to invest money here, and a large ad reminds you that the born-again town was voted the top American city for "global companies" in 1994 by one magazine and the best city for small businesses by another. Atlanta ("A Star...
Behind that eccentric entrepreneur is a bulldog competitor and a sore loser. Virgin usually wins because Branson can do the mundane spectacularly well and because he has an almost unerring ability to connect with consumers, particularly younger ones. Those business instincts are matched by an ability to motivate people who work for him. And who wouldn't want to--Branson seems hell-bent on making sure that everybody, but everybody, is having as much...
Certainly, over the past six years, Frito-Lay has beaten the daylights out of big companies and small through a combination of restructuring, new products and lower prices. "That's exactly what a competitor is supposed to do, get more efficient and gain market share; and that's what they did," says August Busch III, president and chairman of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Busch should know, having lost somewhere north of $500 million trying to make Anheuser's Eagle Snacks division a power chip. In February, Eagle gave up; it recently sold four plants to Frito-Lay. A-B launched Eagle...