Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem, competitors say, is that Calvin Klein Sport is known for jeans but little else. Klein hopes to change that. "What I'm doing now," he says, "is refocusing the line to sell in the bridge market." Says DKNY's Seegal: "It's the repositioning of the repositioning of the repositioning." Adds a competitor: "Calvin Klein is not a happy camper...
...bored by questions," she said, "that's it. I haven't seen a real competitor...
...flight at 8 a.m., another at noon and one at 5 p.m. Let's say I eliminate the flight at noon to cut costs. Now, none of that business is going to fly on my 8 a.m. flight or my 5 p.m. flight. It all goes on my competitor's flight at 12 o'clock. So the result of reducing capacity is to increase my unit costs...
...hardly typical, Fredric Hayward, the executive director of Men's Rights Inc. in Sacramento, examines the exact same situations but finds a different victim. Men may wield professional power, he says, but women have sexual power. "If I or a woman does not get a job because a female competitor displays more enticing cleavage, then what are we victims of?" he asks. "If I or a woman does not get a promotion because a female competitor has an affair with our boss, then what are we victims of?" In his view, men and women have an equal incentive to abuse...
...religious schools from participating in Choice experiments would automatically toss out Roman Catholic parochial schools -- the often successful large-scale competitor to troubled inner-city public schools. As political scientist Chubb, one of the authors of the Brookings plan, says, "We would insist that if there is genuine Choice, there has to be genuine competition. If there is competition, there must be alternative providers other than the existing public schools...