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Taiwan, commercially successful as a legitimate competitor to Silicon Valley, has not achieved equivalent political success globally; the U.S. and the United Nations deny its sovereignty...
...That year was a life-changing experience," Browning said. "It taught me more about who I am as an athlete and a competitor...
Executive Jet commands more than 75% of the fractional-ownership market--down from 100%. Its success has lured a couple of jetmakers into the game, including Raytheon, which sells Beech and Hawker jets. Bombardier, a leading competitor, is adding fractional owners at a rate of more than 100 a year; it has more than 350 clients using 65 Learjet and Challenger aircraft. A booming economy continues to enlarge the ranks of fractional flyers. Over the past 3 1/2 years, Executive Jet has ordered 590 aircraft, paying $9.75 billion and expanding into Europe and Asia...
Like many semiconductor companies, Adaptec contracted out fabrication of the product and concentrated on design. Fear motivated Adaptec's initial investigation of B2B software, according to Dolores Marciel, a 16-year veteran of Adaptec and its vice president of corporate procurement. The company believed that a competitor planned to build a semiconductor-manufacturing plant (also known as a fabrication plant) on its premises, thereby reducing product-development time by half. "We needed to compete or we would get killed," says Marciel. Adaptec couldn't invest the time or money in building its own plant (which on average costs $1.3 billion...
...intelligence full of energy. He differentiates each sailor with a novelist's touch. When Frenchman Raphael Dinelli's Algimouss capsized in a storm in the Southern Ocean, he managed to get on top of the inverted hull and cling there. The story of his rescue by his English competitor Pete Goss--who bravely turned back into the teeth of a force-10 gale and beat to windward until he located Dinelli--is one of those anecdotes of miracle that can be enacted only in an intense theater of life-or-death...