Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lives of Tung and Lee will continue to intersect as both seek to ensure that Hong Kong survives its historic transition intact. "Martin is so stubborn," Tung says of his rival. Tung prefers a get-along and go-along strategy that will build up trust in Beijing. "It's only in that way that they will keep hands off," says a friend and political ally. Lee thinks that will not work with communists. "C.H. is a good man who may be forced to do evil," he says. So Lee intends to keep confronting China in the law courts. In fact...
...months ago, rival Hewlett-Packard allied with Microsoft to push the software giant's Windows NT program into corporate servers, the machines that link large computer networks. In 1995 Digital had cut its own Microsoft deal, looking to the burgeoning NT market to fuel its growth. Instead, it is losing ground in a market already dominated by Intel, rather than Digital, chips...
Irritating though such glib sentiments might be to a vanquished rival--and there are many in Silicon Valley who would just love to see something nasty happen to Microsoft and Intel, if only for the change of pace--such bluster hardly constitutes proof of illegal behavior. "I don't think there's any question that the suit is a negotiating ploy," says Mercury Research analyst Mike Feibus. The current industry wisdom is that Digital's aim is to gain an out-of-court settlement that would give it a foothold in Intel's fortunes--either a cross-licensing agreement granting...
...fanfare in February, would beam 500 channels of digital programming to small home dishes. Because Murdoch's service would have the ability to deliver local over-the-air stations (which other satellite services cannot do), Sky could take significant numbers of customers away from cable. The prospect so alarmed rival media companies that they flooded Washington with lobbyists to try to stop Murdoch on regulatory grounds, since the News Corp. already owns television stations in 22 major markets...
...Corleone-like family around which this saga revolves, still seem to be an awfully heartless bunch. The story is set in motion when Rose Marie (played in her youth by Emily Hampshire and later as an embittered nutbag by Kirstie Alley) falls for a young man in the rival Santadio family. Rose Marie's father, Don Domenico (Danny Aiello), disapproves of the union. So what does he do? He has his sons kill the young man on the couple's wedding night and then reflects to himself that Rose Marie shouldn't have been spared. Perhaps this is too sunny...