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...Carol Lee Lindner, a Haverford, Pa., housewife, who says her life changed several years ago, when she discovered dragon-boat racing--competition among colorful boats, each with 20 paddlers, a drummer and a steerer. She put together Philadelphia's first women's team, then organized an annual 1,400-competitor dragon-boat festival in the city, complete with an athletes' village and an awards ceremony. "At some point, you share the gifts you have with others, and that's where I am at 63," she says...
...stunned the German business and political worlds and sparked intense speculation about hidden motives. Some see it as an attack on Germany as a place to do business. Others wonder whether it may be the payback for allowing a big German company to be bought by a non-German competitor. And when the Financial Times splashed on its front page Deutsche Bank's threat to move its headquarters to London - a report from which it later retreated - bankers in Frankfurt openly wondered whether it wasn't all "a London conspiracy," as one put it. What did Ackermann and cohorts...
...neighbor to the north wasn’t Harvard’s only competitor. The Dartmouth Invitational, a 36-hole affair spanning the weekend, boasted a field of the northeast’s finest female collegiate golfers from 18 area universities...
When the first store opened, in Hollywood in 1964, founder Wayne Mitchell, a former car salesman from the Midwest, was running a chain of California organ shops. Mitchell bought out a competitor, acquiring a shipment of guitars and amplifiers. Almost as an afterthought, he hung a GUITAR CENTER sign on a storefront on Sunset Boulevard to unload the new merchandise and launched his company from the sleepy world of keyboards into the nascent West Coast rock scene. The Hollywood outlet soon gained a reputation as a place where the stars shopped--some of its earliest customers included members...
...million Estimated value of Gulf War II contracts awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development to Bechtel Group, Inc., Halliburton's chief competitor...