Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This bot-driven universe won't arrive until a few kinks have been ironed out. Right now, says Jeff Kephart, manager of the agents and e-merchant phenomena group at IBM, price bots don't understand that undercutting your competitor is not always smart. "This gives rise to price wars," says Kephart, who in tests has watched the sell bots give the store away in a competitive frenzy. "They're pretty dumb," he notes. "We have to give them a sense of anticipation...
...Mleczko's 77th assist of the season, 23 more than her nearest competitor--sophomore linemate Tammy Shewchuk--and more than enough to earn her the 1998-99 Patty Kazmaier Award as the Player of the Year in Division...
...reason may be that a lack of post-handshake regulatory headaches may be priceless. "The FCC is a lot less likely to hold up a merger between long-distance companies (MCI and Sprint are Nos. 2 and 3 in that market, respectively) because there?s already a big fat competitor sitting right there," says TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld. "In fact, some of the impetus for MCI to buy Sprint may be to save money and compete even more with...
...really happy with how we played as a team, but we just couldn't find our rhythm [Tuesday] night," said junior setter Julie Yick. "UMass is a tough competitor, and their team is pretty similar to UConn, who beat us [in three games] over the weekend...
...much lesser degree. Who can forget the Nike partisans of the 1992 Dream Team refusing to wear Reebok warm-ups?) It serves no purpose to describe any further how it feels to carry on one's shoulders the hopes and fortunes of one's fellow citizens, because every competitor calls the feeling "indescribable...