Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pushed by a will to live as other men are fired by a taste for power or money. Intel, the firm that Grove built, has survived in one of the most tumultuous industries in history, emerging to become one of the most powerful companies of our age, with a stranglehold on one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century. And though Intel's spotless clean rooms, its brilliant engineers and its bunny-suited workers seem far removed from that Austrian hillside, few places better reflect the sense of urgency with which the firm operates. Grove has it boiled down...
...equation, and it's a jarring reality pretty much across the tech board. Success breeds imitators. Imitators flood the market with goods. Prices (and profits) come down. Again, take Intel. It supplies nearly 90% of the microprocessors in PCs worldwide--a more commanding grip than even Microsoft's stranglehold on PC operating systems. But to protect its position, Intel has cut semiconductor prices faster than anyone expected as rivals Cyrix and Advanced Micro Devices compete furiously to supply cheaper components for the $1,000 PCs now taking the world by storm. Intel's profit margin has eroded from nearly...
...willing college and adolescent devotees and its history of producing great ska bands, served as a perfect city to nurture the band from the outset. Growing up in Boston exposed Gittleman and other members to old school Boston punk and ska bands such as Bim Skala Bim, DYS, Stranglehold and the Dogmatics. The stage was set and with the only changes being a new drummer and added horns in 1990, the band has been consistently blasting out their defining ska-core sounds for over ten years with a constant line...
...York Post, citing sources at practice, said Sprewell put a 15-second stranglehold on Carlesimo, saying: "I'm going to kill you. You better get me off this team, or that's what I'm going...
...recent years, the Princeton Tigers have held a stranglehold over the rest of the Ivy League, sharing three out of the last four league titles and going to the Final Four five straight years...