Word: stifferent
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...Avatar faces a quicker, stiffer challenge from the debuts of a big romantic comedy (It's Complicated, with Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin), a big action picture (Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. as the martial-arts sleuth) and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, plus the long-awaited wide release of Up in the Air. The competition of that imposing lineup suggests a cloudy forecast for Avatar, with or without snow...
Amazon's hot digital reader will also face stiffer competition over the holidays. Barnes & Noble, for example, just unveiled its new entry into the market, the Nook. But Kindle sales are still strong. "Kindle has become the No. 1 best-selling item by both unit sales and dollars - not just in our electronics store but across all product categories on Amazon.com," Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos recently said. Amazon's profit soared 68%, to $199 million, for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. The book discounts could draw traffic to the site and tempt shoppers to pony...
After opening the season with a strong 3-0 start, the Crimson dropped seven out of eight as conference play and stiffer competition presented itself. With Harvard’s next contest against Ivy League-leading Princeton (11-2, 4-0), a decisive victory couldn’t have come at a better moment...
...There's evidence that this dire scenario is uncomfortably possible. Although China's economy is growing relatively strongly, the government is so concerned about excess capacity that it recently banned investments in aluminum production and imposed stiffer conditions on new projects in the steel, coal and petrochemical sectors. Without such controls, "it will be hard to prevent vicious market competition and increase economic benefits, and this could result in facility closures, layoffs and increases in banks' bad assets," a government statement said...
...said Harvard’s reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, sophomore Christine Cho. “This tournament gave us a good chance to compare our skills against schools that play a lot more golf than us against better competition.” Despite the stiffer competition, the Crimson more than held its own, as the team of five individual golfers finished in a tie for seventh place with the University of Nevada Las Vegas out of a field of 18 of the nation’s best teams. Harvard tallied improving team marks...