Word: outbidding
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...Find an apartment not under rent control, and outbid the current tenants of that apartment...
...copies a week on Italian newsstands. Italian designers are famed for what they do with silks and leather, and their fashions are in high demand. French, Dutch and Belgian appliance firms have been unable to compete with lower-priced Italian refrigerators and washing machines. Italian construction combines outbid competitors for huge jobs in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Says a Milan-based builder: "Being a bit of an underdeveloped country yourself helps you work in other underdeveloped regions...
During the football season, CBS's coverage was rarely in the same league with the other networks. Yet its games averaged 17 million viewers v. NBC's 9,000,000 and ABC's 6,300,000. The reason is simply that CBS outbid the competition for the established, sure-draw National Football League, while NBC settled for the newer American Foot ball League and ABC was left with college games...
...Thorn Electrical Industries, Britain's largest maker of radio and television sets, outbid Dutch interests by offering $74.8 million for ailing Pye of Cambridge, sixth-ranking TV-set producer, which lost $25 million last year. Austrian-born Sir Jules Thorn, 62, built Thorn up from a mite to a mammoth (fiscal 1966 sales: $238 million) by breaking a light-bulb monopoly in the '30s. Later, he expanded by absorbing such competitors as Marconi, British Philco, and Ultra Radio and Television. Through Pye, Thorn hopes to move into telecommunications, now dominated in Britain by the likes of Plessey...
...surrounded by two Etruscan-style colonnades, backed by a Greco-Roman temple, and fronted by a marble Birth of Venus. Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense 16th century Italian carved-walnut ceiling and a 16th century French stone mantelpiece for which Hearst outbid even John D. Rockefeller. Another favorite is the 27-ft.-high refectory, a monastic dining hall, lined with cathedral choir stalls and hung with 22 Sienese banners...