Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago immediately set up a potential clash between his long-estranged family and the financially privileged insiders who ran Hughes' solely owned Summa Corp., which was founded in 1972 to oversee his vast holdings. At first, to almost everybody's surprise, peace reigned between the rival camps. But, after months of growing tensions, a full-scale battle for Hughes' fortune has now broken...
...filed by Attorney General Ramsey Clark on Jan. 17, 1969, the final working day of the Johnson Administration. The Government's interest in IBM encouraged several other suits against IBM by rival computer companies (some of which have since been settled). To organize the defense, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a prestigious New York law firm, began moving a platoon of 35 attorneys to an IBM office building in White Plains, N.Y., for courses in electronics, computer technology, accounting, company organization and business procedures. "In a case as big as this, there are hundreds, thousands of issues," says Cravath, Swaine Partner...
...Rival Shuttle. Laker is confident of making a profit; to do so, he will have to fill an average two-thirds of the 345 seats on each flight during the summer rush. Pan Am and TWA, which hope to attract some of Laker's customers, are sure to offer some rival shuttle of their own, or at least cut-rate stand-by seating on regularly scheduled flights. Some other transatlantic lines may do so too -but not Laker's state-owned competitor, British Airways. British authorities do not plan to grant British Airways a Skytrain-type license...
...with just the right amount of bite. The identity of the killer is revealed in the opening pages: Tommy Bryson, a young homosexual whose attempt to go straight results in the sex slaying of a Glasgow girl. The question is whether the police can get to him before two rival bands of killers, for reasons of their own, run Bryson to earth...
...offices? In the securities industry, as in the insurance and advertising businesses, specialized skills and customer contacts are all-important. Wall Street firms often find it cheaper to hire a competitor's employee than to train someone new, and that the easiest way to win accounts from a rival is to hire the brokers who service them. Even the firms that count themselves aggrieved may be wooing away employees from rivals. Only a month before its Fresno office defected, Bateman Eichler hired five members of the trading department of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton Inc. And Loeb Rhoades, in response...