Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that in earlier work with the drug, it was found to be the most potent competitor for binding sites of cocaine, and also the best choice for radiolabeling...
...than a mixture of mushrooms, onions, oats, brown rice, low-fat cheese, egg whites, bulgur wheat, walnuts and seasonings pressed into a patty and baked? Almost anything, you say? Not according to assorted Hollywood celebrities and health-conscious residents of Portland, Ore. They're all fans of a meatless competitor to the hamburger, called the Gardenburger. Developed by Paul Wenner, president of Portland's Wholesome and Hearty Foods Inc., it packs half the calories and one-fifth the fat of ordinary hamburgers...
...Crimson finished with 558 points, outswimming Penn State, its closest competitor, by 31, and the Tigers, who captured third place, by 85 points. It was a meet for making up past grievances, and Harvard made up for two by beating both Penn State and Princeton...
...their skills of deception. "They're quite good at it," he said. In addition to the ersatz launchers, Iraq has employed mock tanks, airplanes, bunkers and artillery. The preferred materials: plywood, aluminum and fiber glass. Among the Iraqis' possible suppliers was a French company, Lancelin-Barracuda, and an Italian competitor, M.V.M. A U.S. Defense Department official says Baghdad is even hiding missiles in "portable mosques sized to the task of concealment." In addition to deploying decoys, the Iraqis are painting craters onto repaired airfields so allied bombers won't retarget them. They may also be fixing up decimated installations...
...demise was prompted mainly by a series of scandalous failures that were typical of the way the military acquires most of its big-ticket weapons systems. When the A-12 contract was let in 1988, the McDonnell Douglas-General Dynamics team bid $1 billion less than its competitor, a Grumman-Northrop consortium. Since the bid was unrealistically low, the Avenger contractors quickly ran into excessive costs and slipped behind schedule...