Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony of ironies, she was recovering from her own injuries suffered the day before. Her physical pain was evident, framing her performance with agony more immediate than the video memories of Kerrigan weeping in Detroit seven weeks ago. The bizarre accident in which the Ukrainian collided with a German competitor during practice had created not only a new victim but prepared the way for a new heroine. Baiul required stitches on her right shin and two injections of pain killers on Friday. But her smile reached the rafters even as she flirted shamelessly with folks in the jury...
...silver medalist Zhang Yanmei refused to pose with Turner at the podium and flung her bouquet to the ground. As China lodged a protest, Canadian Nathalie Lambert sympathized, calling Cathy Turner "the dirtiest skater." On Saturday, Turner was disqualified from the 1,000-m for illegally cutting off another competitor. Said Turner: "The judges were just waiting...
...audience for these shows tends to be older, at a time when advertisers seem obsessed with targeting the young crowd. A recent Nielsen survey found that Murder, She Wrote, despite its high ratings, gets less for a 30-second commercial than its low-rated (but younger-skewing) Sunday-night competitor SeaQuest...
...competitive American products -- Motorola claims 40% of the global cellular market -- can be tripped up in Japan. In 1987, when it privatized the national phone company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Japan's government divided the country into two cellular-phone regions, with NTT operating in both and one fully private competitor in each. Though it has flourished elsewhere in Japan, Motorola maintains that it has been handicapped in the Tokyo-Nagoya corridor, the more profitable of the two areas, where its phones are incompatible with the NTT transmitting system...
...Japanese government provided the company a slice of the cellular-phone bandwidth in the Tokyo-Nagoya region. There was a catch: Motorola's new transmitting equipment would have to be installed by IDO, the wholly private cellular operator in that area. Called upon to build facilities for a competitor, IDO dragged its feet. In 1992, at Motorola's request, Washington sought and gained a follow-up agreement to speed construction...