Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sacrifice innovation to cut costs. In bringing out its 1900-series computer three years ago, International Computers & Tabulators kept the development bill down to a mere $20 million by using such existing innards as transistors and printed circuits instead of the more sophisticated integrated microcircuits offered by its U.S. rival. Even so, the effort almost wiped out I.C.T. profits for more than a year. When European firms are willing or able to invest heavily in research, they often get excellent results. But risk capital is lacking in Europe. "In 40 years," says Sir John Baker, head of Cambridge University...
...cooperation, and the apparent decision of Egypt's President Nasser and Syria's Premier Youssef Zayyen to back a kind of confrontation with the conservative Arab kingdoms of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and Jordan's Hussein. It also reflects a jockeying for power among rival Arab groups in such places as South Arabia, which will soon get its independence from Britain. The violence is being fueled by a sudden proliferation of terrorist organizations that seem as ready to fire on rivals as on the hated Jews. There are now no fewer than eleven separate Arab...
...sales were up 5%. For Pontiac, benefiting from the popularity of its intermediate Tempest, it was the fifth straight year of record sales. The big G.M. loser (off 11%) was Chevrolet, which held on to a slender 2,145,000-to-2,006,474 sales lead over the rival Ford Division. Ford itself sold 18,000 fewer cars than...
Chiang Kai-shek limped to bed with glee this week anticipating his happiest dreams in years. The reported brawls between rival Communist faction sin Nanking and Shanghai probably spread like wide-fire under those old eye-lids and there he was, standing tall, as his Navy crossed the Taiwan Straits and saved the strife-weary people of the mainland...
...Honestly, I couldn't even find a room for my own mother." Said her weary counterpart at rival Vail, Colorado's other big ski resort: "We've had more than 1,000 calls this week asking about possible cancellations...