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...only outfit accused of playing dirty. Far from it. Just last week, Motorola sued Intel for allegedly hiring away key employees to obtain its microchip trade secrets. Minneapolis-based agribusiness giant Cargill recently acknowledged that a rogue employee may have lifted proprietary genetic material from a competitor, an admission that effectively killed a $650 million deal to sell its North American seed division to a German biotech venture...
However, whether it is Ivy League, national or international competition, the Hungarian's toughest competitor is herself...
This season, Gyorffy continued her dominance from freshman year with performances unprecedented from an Ivy League competitor. Despite the success, however, Gyorffy believes that the winter was only the begining to what she can accomplish in the sport...
...WILL WIN: Saving PrivateRyan, Movies that score with critics andaudiences alike (Ryan was uniformlywell-reviewed, and its box-office receipts morethan double its nearest Best Picture competitor)have a tendency to dominate the highly politicalAcademy Awards. Another element in the film'sfavor: the Academy will doubtless conform to itsrecently instated unwritten law--the longest moviewins. Sound ridiculous? Believe it. Recent winnersTitanic, The English Patient, Braveheartand Schindler's List all conform to thismoronic but increasingly reliable dictum. Okay,Private Ryan only edges out The Thin RedLine by a few seconds (both films have anofficial running time of 170 minutes), but itsmonster...
...that's going to take a long time," cautions Mark Husson, a retail analyst at Merrill Lynch. Even Neupert, who's secured only 12 such agreements so far, concedes that many prescription-benefit managers (like PCS, which Rite Aid recently acquired) aren't likely to sign up a competitor. Nor will the websites be able to undercut the stores on prices all that much; managed care has already squeezed prices on many drugs...