Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standoff. Finally, in 1987 the French and U.S. governments agreed that the two labs should share credit and split the royalties generated by patented AIDS blood tests. But doubts remained. A lengthy investigation in 1989 by the Chicago Tribune raised once again the possibility that Gallo had stolen his competitor's work and prompted Michigan Congressman John Dingell to call upon the NIH to investigate Gallo for possible misconduct...
Last week was worse than most. With AT&T acquiring the computer maker NCR (for $7.4 billion), what had been little more than a bothersome competitor was suddenly part of a company as big as IBM. A new survey of customer satisfaction among business users of personal computers showed IBM out of the running, somewhere below 10th place and below average, its exact ranking not disclosed by the pollsters. Its stock is skidding along near a nine-month low. And at week's end, to underscore that the company is going through one of its toughest times in memory...
Navy (142 points) seized control from start to finish, outdistancing its nearest competitor, Army (99) by 43 points...
...Hubbard tutorial program in public schools, primarily those populated by minorities. The group also plans a 1,000-acre campus, where it will train educators to teach various Hubbard methods. The disingenuously named Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a Scientology group at war with psychiatry, its primary competitor. The commission typically issues reports aimed at discrediting particular psychiatrists and the field in general. The CCHR is also behind an all-out war against Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, the nation's top-selling antidepression drug. Despite scant evidence, the group's members - who call themselves "psychbusters" - claim that...
After the Palm Beach story appeared, feminists and other outraged readers picketed the paper's headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The New York tabloids, the Daily News and the Post -- neither of which has printed the alleged victim's name -- cluck-clucked at their august competitor in editorials for violating journalistic ethics. Even Dan Schwartz, the editor of the National Enquirer, which also did not print the woman's name, was claiming that "I think we took a more ethical standard than they...