Word: competitors
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Kerrigan's misfortune was especially poignant. As a skater, she has always been an enigma. Blessed with a solid, assured technique -- high, ample leaps, a long, elegant line and instinctive musicality -- she is an erratic competitor. On good days she has won national titles and, in 1992, an Olympic bronze medal. On bad days she has lost her nerve and scaled down her program by simplifying or eliminating the tough jumps. Says TV commentator and former - Olympic gold medalist Dick Button: "She is unusually strong as a skater, more so than most women, but in other ways she is very...
What they and other researchers are plotting is nothing less than a biomedical revolution. Like Silicon Valley pirates reverse-engineering a computer chip to steal a competitor's secrets, genetic engineers are decoding life's molecular secrets and trying to use that knowledge to reverse the natural course of disease. DNA in their hands has become both a blueprint and a drug, a pharmacological substance of extraordinary potency that can treat not just symptoms or the diseases that cause them but also the imperfections in DNA that make people susceptible to a disease...
...many credit-card rates fall. If the rate you pay remains high, call the issuer and ask for a lower rate or to have the annual fee waived -- or both. Believe it or not, many credit-card issuers will do this rather than lose you to a lower-priced competitor...
...companies are racing to build. Much of what Bell Atlantic and Time Warner are planning to sell -- interactivity, two-way communications, multimedia info on demand -- the Internet already provides for free. And because of its cold war roots, the Internet has one quality that makes it a formidable competitor: you couldn't destroy it if you tried...
...casual visitor to the newsgroups on the Usenet (a bulletin-board system that began as a competitor to the Internet but has been largely subsumed by it) will discover discussion groups labeled, according to the Net's idiosyncratic cataloging system, alt.sex.masturbation, alt.sex.bondage and alt.sex.fetish.feet. On Internet Relay Chat, a global 24-hour-a-day message board, one can stumble upon imaginary orgies played out with one-line typed commands ("Now I'm taking off your shirt . . ."). In alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, a user can peek at snapshots that would make a sailor blush...