Word: rivalling
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...member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin a group; some were placed on their original team, others on the rival team. In both cases, the rest of the group had already begun working and the returnee had to be brought up to speed quickly. When the work was done, the subjects filled out questionnaires about how they felt the sessions had gone. The results were striking. (See pictures of Steve...
...groups - regardless of whether the participants were from the same house or included a member of a rival house - the passage of just five minutes was sufficient to establish a unique response among the three full-time members, which the latecomer did not share. Those who found themselves disagreeing with the late returnee reported feeling closer to the rest of the group, with whom they had formed a closer bond; those who agreed with the odd member felt alienated from the rest of the group. But that wasn't necessarily...
...MySpace and Facebook differ: The rival Web sites had come to embody the two competing visions of digital identity online. MySpace represented the freewheeling spirit of the Web, where anonymity allows people to experiment with their identity and express their views freely. In contrast, Facebook represented a more structured view of online identity, where people authenticate their offline identity in the hopes of creating a community of trust...
...soon push the bank into insolvency, Citi's bankers who advise other companies on mergers and acquisitions are having a banner year. Through the first two months of 2009, bankers at Citi were hired to offer guidance on more of the nation's largest deals than any of its rivals, according to Dealogic, which tracks financial activity. Globally, Citi has been a part of four of the six largest deals in 2009. Its biggest score came in January when it was picked by Pfizer to be one of the drugmaker's advisors on its $68 billion acquisition of rival Wyeth...
...collapse of Bear Stearns a year ago, Timothy Geithner has based his approach on one underlying theory. The crisis, the former New York Fed president and now Treasury Secretary believes, is the result of the collapse of a shadow banking system that grew over the past 30 years to rival the traditional banking system in size but lacked all four of the safeguards that had been imposed after repeated collapses of the traditional system in the early part of the 20th century...