Word: rivalling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Clancy, Google's engineering director, said the deal affects only a neglected and unprofitable sliver of the book market. Competitors like Microsoft and Amazon aren't trying to digitize library books - Microsoft started a rival effort but dropped it last year - "and so the fact that they don't want these books accessible isn't a shocker," he said. "The vast majority of people I talk to are very excited about the idea that this content is going to be unlocked and opened up." Clancy acknowledged criticism that some parts of the settlement may be too broad but said changes...
Fueled by writers, the debate has plenty of rhetorical flourishes. One incensed objector called Google a "Dickensian street pickpocket." The Open Book Alliance, a coalition that includes goliath rival Microsoft as well as the National Writers Union, likened Google to industrialist John D. Rockefeller and compared the settlement to a monopoly cartel controlling the future of digital publishing. "They have worked very hard to create the impression that this is like a freight train, and if you want to stand in front of it, you'll get run over," Gary Reback, an antitrust attorney who penned the legal brief...
Prayers and guides to the underworld cover the wood. One panel features Djehutynakt’s conversation with Ra during his passage through the underworld. Fragments of the hieroglyphs, translated for the viewer, suggest a vision of the afterlife that could rival Dante’s. “Dog-face, whose shape is big. This is a spell for passing by him,” one segment reads...
...Movember will be expanding into five more countries this year, giving the group growers in 10 countries, including the U.S. That gives it a big advantage over its smaller but scrappier rival, Mustaches for Kids, which began in Los Angeles in 1998 and now has about 1,000 members across the country...
...little chance of winning; her support is trending downward, while Hoffman is gaining ground, putting him in a tight race with Owens with only four days left until voters go to the polls. The newest television ad on Hoffman's campaign website attacks Owens, now perceived as a bigger rival than Scozzafava. And on Thursday, Representative Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told Politico that Hoffman would be welcomed "with open arms" into the GOP caucus, no doubt to the dismay of the party's official candidate in the race...