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...first round, Rechul grappled to a 6-4 victory over Brad Steele of Wyoming, a tough competitor who would wrestleback to place fourth in the tournament...
...large extent this is still so today. For any invention to succeed in the marketplace, it has to be some kind of surprise. Most of all for the competitor. And then for the consumer. As a result, invention (with Descartes's help) has given us a world nobody could have forecast and few can understand because of the esoteric process of innovation and the fact that it has never been subject to general social audit...
Turning his eyes earthward, and in consort with General Motors, MacCready conceived the Sunraycer, a solar-powered electric car that averaged 41 m.p.h. in a 1,867-mile race across Australia, finishing two days ahead of its nearest competitor. It too became part of the Smithsonian's collection and was the forerunner of the AeroVironment-designed Impact, an experimental GM battery-powered electric car that in turn evolved into the electric EV-1 auto, which GM is leasing to customers in California and Arizona...
Like everyone else, Collenette is faced with learning to love Air Canada or finding another way to travel long distances--for instance, walking. After a bruising battle with a Canadian financier in the fall of 1999, Milton took over his principal competitor, Canadian Airlines, which was 25% controlled by American Airlines. He has been merging it into the world's 11th largest airline: Air Canada has almost 80% of the air-travel market within Canada and controls about 43% of the traffic between Canada and the U.S. The airline has plans to start a low-cost carrier in 2001 that...
...with a hostile takeover bid backed by AMR, parent of American Airlines. Milton won a court verdict reaffirming a law that said no single shareholder could own more than 10% of Air Canada, effectively scuttling the bid. Then, with backing from United Airlines and Lufthansa, Air Canada swallowed its competitor for a fire-sale $61 million. Milton summed up his business philosophy: "I don't mess around with other people, and I don't like people messing around with...