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...Every epic needs a dramatic confrontation as its climax. Can Schmidt finally capsize his old rival? Steve Allen, an analyst with Sierra Tech Research, put Schmidt in Silicon Valley perspective: ?This is a story of redemption,? Allen says. ?Everyone loves a story of redemption. Here's a chance to come back the third time and see if he can do it. That's part of what's driving him. Google isn't going off to do that just because he has a personal vendetta. But that does play into the mix.?-With reporting by Amanda Bower/San Francisco
...hottest store in retailing isf Bass Pro Shops; the second hottest is its rival, Cabela's. Cities from Buffalo, N.Y., to Broken Arrow, Okla., are throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at those outfits for the privilege of getting one of their megastores. The stores are so popular, they drive economic development...
This kind of growth attracts company, and Bass Pro's closest rival is Cabela's, which went public last year. Stock-market analysts are already nervous that the two companies are growing so fast that they will begin to clash directly, although, as Hagale says, it's a big country. The boat business doesn't have clear sailing either. Industry leader Brunswick is on a vertical-integration tear, a strategy that brought another firm, Outboard Marine, into bankruptcy. Genmar stepped in to feed on the remains, but Jacobs warns that a further shakeout looms in a market that is stagnant...
...just talk. His coups this year alone include besting rival financier Wilbur Ross in a bidding war for textile firm WestPoint Stevens, forcing stock buybacks at energy firm Kerr-McGee and drug firm Mylan Laboratories, and (with a stunning 77% of the vote) landing three seats on the board of Blockbuster, the video chain...
...year-old as "struggling," "fragile" and "nervous" and suggested he needed to step down as captain to focus on improving his game. The bust-up has riveted India, where, as the Bombay tabloid Mid Day noted, "the game is religion." The spat has played endlessly on local TV, while rival protesters have burned effigies of Chappell and Ganguly in the streets...