Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This match will set the tone for the NCAAs," Harvard's top-seeded singles player Cristina Dragomirescu said. "[William & Mary] is unquestionably our main competitor in the East...
...Harvard sophomore stayed neck-and-neck with his Hawkeye opponent. Each competitor held serve for the first 11 games of the fierce final frame. Then Zimmerman took charge...
...even on Wall Street. Many experts regard the firm's fall, caused largely by the collapse of its $1 billion junk-bond portfolio, as a just comeuppance and a sign that Wall Street is entering a period of welcome sobriety. Drexel, after all, was more than just a tough competitor; it was viewed as a bad influence. Last year the company agreed to pay a $650 million fine and pleaded guilty to six counts of mail and securities fraud. As part of the settlement, federal prosecutors required Drexel to dump Milken, who now faces a 98-count fraud and racketeering...
...investigate debacles like Drexel's, it has shown little interest in enacting new laws to curb financial markets, even after the 1987 crash. The real lesson of the fall of the most money-mad firm of a money-mad decade is that in any free market, a heedless competitor can lead virtually the whole industry astray. The pendulum is swinging back now, but the impact of the debt that Drexel's junk bonds loaded on corporate America will not vanish as swiftly as the perpetrator...
...highly competitive European market, behind Volkswagen (15.1%), Fiat (14.4%), PeugeotCitroen (12.7%) and Ford (11.6%). But at its current rate, GM Europe may soon move up a notch or two. The company, which makes cars in West Germany, England, Spain and Belgium, is considered the most nimble pan-European competitor at the moment. "If I were the rest of the Europeans, I'd be scared to death of GM," says James Harbour, an automotive consultant in Troy, Mich...