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Overall the Crimson won 11 of the meet's 21 events and never relinquished its lead during the three-day competition. In the end Princeton, more than 100 points behind Harvard, was the closest competitor...
...didn't treat its employees the best, working for them was not a bundle of joy, but he handled himself well," says Charles Dumas he Associated Press Albany correspondent and Mack's friend and chief competitor through the 1950s...
...machine, as it was with Kasparov. It's one kind of tool vs. another kind of tool.Thus the steam drill wasn't really challenging John Henry; it was challenging his sledgehammer. It's the guy using the steam drill who was challenging John Henry. Similarly, the bank teller's competitor is not so much the atm as the people who design the machine or those who build it or service it. Functionally speaking, they're just bank tellers using new tools. And that's all the old bank teller really needs: new tools--skill as an ATM programmer or servicer...
...year ago that he had developed a deadly lymphatic cancer and that his slim chance for survival might rest on their lab results, it was more than they'd bargained for. They already knew their company was fighting for survival, locked in a legal battle over patents with a competitor. Now they were also supposed to save their boss...
...Kuscsik of Huntington, N.Y. won the first official women's marathon in 1972, Switzer, Berman and Benoit stand out as three female pioneers. In 1967, Switzer, a Syracuse University student, applied for a race by using only the initials of her first and middle name. Boston's first female competitor completed the race only after her boyfriend tackled a race official who attempted to remove her from the course. Two years later, Berman, a mother of three, won the unofficial women's race, accompanied by her husband, in 3:22:46. But perhaps the most remarkable and inspirational finish...