Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collectors, sometimes buying entire exhibitions at a single gulp. Now he is unloading scores of works at the hyperprices his frenetic buying helped create. Maurice, 43, though not as aloof as his sibling, spends less and less time with Saatchi & Saatchi employees and clients. Says the chief of a rival advertising firm: "You can't run an agency by remote control...
...Saatchis soon learned that bulk can have its downside. Many advertisers objected to being crowded into the same corporate tent with rival products. Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble, Warner-Lambert and other major firms have pulled nearly $600 million worth of accounts from Saatchi-owned agencies since...
Revenues spiraled as the Saatchis bought up rival ad agencies, including Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Backer & Spielvogel, and Ted Bates in 1986. But returns on the investments dropped sharply as management failed to meld the pieces into a smoothly run global company...
...Botha, for a historic face-to-face meeting. Mandela has since received a series of visitors at the Victor Verster Prison Farm, where he is serving his 26th year of a life sentence for plotting to overthrow white rule. Most of his powwows have been with leaders of rival antigovernment groups. But last week Mandela, 71, a leader of the banned African National Congress (A.N.C.), traveled under escort 30 miles to Cape Town for his first meeting with Botha's successor, President F.W. de Klerk. By granting his request for a meeting, De Klerk signaled that Mandela will play...
...supposed to win it all--and it didn't. Last year was the year Princeton broke the Crimson's six-year, 72-game winning streak. And last year was the year that one of the most successful teams in Harvard sports history finally yielded its champion-ship status to rival Yale...