Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike many other college communities, Harvard Square doesn't have a large cafe-bookstore. Barnes and Noble's takeover could even make the Coop a competitor against the new Loker Commons, opening in January...
...stop-gap measure. The Coop has already dramatically demonstrated that, when possible, the market should not be interfered with. The orginal concept of the Coop--that the students should be given a rebate--has been compromised. The Coop is no longer a cooperative. It should become just another competitor in the Square...
...about 60 cents per lb. When the group gathered at a Nikko Hotel conference room in Mexico City, Wilson stated that the price drop had created an unacceptable situation: buyers of lysine were getting a $200 million break at the expense of ADM and the Japanese producers. "The competitor is our friend, and the customer is our enemy," Whitacre quotes Wilson as saying, a statement that Whitacre came to recognize as one of ADM's unofficial mantras...
...famous television commercial first aired six years ago, poultry tycoon Frank Perdue uses a competitor's frozen chicken to hammer a nail into a board. Perdue's point is simple: the law is absurd. Current rules permit poultry frozen hard as a bowling ball to be thawed at market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans...
...White House official, before admitting, "If Powell does run, he will be a significant player." Another in the White House is more fatalistic: "If he runs, we're dead." Says William Lacy, Bob Dole's top strategist: "If he jumped in the race today, he would be the principal competitor...