Word: competitors
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Finding the top is the sort of discovery of which Nobel dreams are made, and the pressure to be first has become particularly intense now that the Collider Detector has a competitor on its tail, a rival Fermilab detector that began generating its own data last May. The sense of urgency has intensified arguments among the Collider Detector's 400 experimentalists over how to interpret the whispery tracks that appeared in October inside the device, a conglomeration of electronics and steel that stands 3 1/2 stories tall and weighs 4,500 tons. Through its hollow center, protons and antiprotons, accelerated...
...have sprung up to contest the election, including one with the Stars and Stripes as its symbol. Hun Sen's ruling communists have renamed themselves the Cambodian People's Party, but find it hard to escape their Marxist, pro-Vietnamese history or reputation for corruption and brutality. Their principal competitor is the nationalist, anticommunist party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler...
...savvy. Running as the candidate of the predominant Democratic Liberal Party, Kim beat his longtime rival, the fiery populist Kim Dae Jung, 67, by 42% to 34%. He was helped by the poor showing of Chung Ju Yung, 77, the former chairman of the Hyundai conglomerate and his main competitor among conservative and middle-class voters, who received only 16% of the vote. Kim, campaigning for "change with stability," * was the safe choice for citizens rattled by the country's sputtering economy...
...where he was director of policy planning. He is the author of five books on U.S. foreign policy. When he talks, his eyes are penetrating and his humor is wry. Described variously by associates as "a stalwart Puritan," "immensely kind," "the opposite of a self-promoter" and "a tough competitor," he seems psychologically centered, surprisingly devoid of the egotism and Machiavellian qualities often found in presidential advisers...
Pillsbury, the Crimson's fiercest competitor, was a lock. Furse, who won Harvard's award as best interior lineman, was expected...