Word: upstart
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...supporting those machines has been the company's real cash cow. In the past year, however, Canon, IBM and German printer Heidelberger--which, ironically, purchased its technology from Xerox's old Rochester, N.Y., brother-in-arms, Kodak--have come up with a product to rival Xerox's. Though these upstart machines don't have as many bells and whistles, they're more than adequate for companies that increasingly prefer slimmed-down, more open technology that works better with all sorts of software programs. They have also handed customers some valuable bargaining leverage in dealing with Xerox...
Although four Ivy League teams qualified for the NCAA tournament last season, the only way to guarantee a spot in the Big Dance is to win the Ivy League championship. After an early blemish to upstart Brown, Harvard has regained the form it displayed in its 1999 championship campaign...
Still, if the Nobel rules allowed posthumous awards, Kilby would almost certainly be sharing his prize with someone else. For not long after Kilby's productive summer, Robert Noyce, another inventive young Midwesterner, began toying with similar ideas at an upstart outfit called Fairchild Semiconductor. But there was a key difference. Noyce, who had a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.--Kilby flunked the admissions test--used a new chemical etching technique. It could not only print transistors on silicon wafers directly, like patterns in a rug, but also lay down the critical connecting tracks between them, simplifying the chips' manufacture...
Having proven its national prowess with six consecutive wins against teams as far away as California and North Carolina, the Harvard women's soccer team will attempt to assert local dominance when it hosts upstart Boston University tomorrow at Ohiri Field...
...routine the upstart Crimson can live with...