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...factors that separate breakthrough companies from their competitors is the tendency to continue to up the ante as the stakes in the game increase. Polaris Industries left the safety of its snowmobile niche to battle the Japanese in the ATV business and later took on the gang at Harley-Davidson in the motorcycle business. The Staubach Co., the commercial real estate broker, pushed to expand nationally before other tenant-rep firms did. Intuit faced down Microsoft twice, in the personal-financial-management-software business and in the small-business-accounting business. In each of these cases, competitors chose to play...
...There is disagreement about what the weather forecast had been for that afternoon. The OTC maintains there had been no prediction of heavy rain. However, a local bureau, MetService, is saying otherwise. What is clear is that at around 3:30 a downpour, described by OTC chief executive Grant Davidson as a "rain bomb," struck the area, causing an extremely rapid rise in the river's water level. It soared from 0.5 cubic meter to 18 cubic meters in half an hour, according to Davidson. "I have seen that amount of water but I have never seen it come down...
...When Davidson guard Jason Richards’ last second three-pointer missed the mark, ending his team’s long-shot bid to upset the mighty Kansas Jayhawks, it became official: For the first time in the history of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, all four number one seeds had advanced to the Final Four...
...Taiwan policy he has so far been able to avoid, and it is uncertain how far he's willing to go. "Taiwan's leadership will be looking for concessions and will almost certainly be willing to make concessions of its own." says Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan expert at Davidson College in North Carolina. "That will force Beijing to decide: Where do we draw the line...
...NCAA “A” qualifying time and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in Washington later this month. Jones captured a new pool record and an NCAA “B” qualifying time in the 100-yard butterfly, as did freshman Justin Davidson (100-yard breaststroke), bringing Harvard’s total of records broken for the weekend up to seven.“We really couldn’t have asked for a better performance out of our team,” Rathgeber said. “Top to bottom, we really swam...