Word: competitors
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Although the Coop is competitive in music prices--it will match any competitor's price on a CD or tape and has a 15 percent members' discount--it cannot touch the kind of selection at neighboring Tower Records of HMV. This selection problem is not limited to the music department...
...Stone is concerned, he is probably the greatest money raiser that Harvard has ever had," Burr says. "I supposed the only competitor for the prize would be [former corporation member] Bishop Lawrence, who was long before my time in the 19th century...
Dependencies and increasing returns are no guarantee of long-term survival, however, and nobody knows that better than Gates. He and his lieutenants are always on the lookout for the technological breakthrough that could permit some smaller, scrappier competitor to do to Microsoft what Microsoft has done to everyone else. In the past the company was content to let others lead the way-into online services, for example-waiting until there was a clear market opportunity before swooping in. Now Microsoft is starting to do its own basic research, spending $600 million a year trying to build computer systems that...
TIME: Borland [another Microsoft competitor] charges that you used vaporware [the preannouncement of a nonexistent product] to screw up the development of Turbo BASIC. Which you did, right...
...fact, few Murdoch watchers believe the man would be satisfied with a minority interest in any company. He is known for big, risky deals, like the $1.6 billion he spent to bring N.F.L. football to Fox. And more than anything, he's determined to make Fox a real competitor against the Big Three U.S. networks. That means adding affiliates. With new networks founded by Paramount and Warner also scouting available stations, the competition is tough. He could attempt to buy companies that own several stations, like Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, which has eight. Or he could pick them...