It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

Furthermore, Spencer argued that individuals with superior resources who deliberately used investment schemes to put competitor out of business were committing acts of “ commercial murder ”.

However, Atari started to sue its competitor companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements and Emerson was left with thousands of manufactured games that could no longer be sold.

The small minibus operator M & M Coaches and its main competitor Transdev Lancashire United provide service in Accrington, with routes to places such as Blackburn, Oswaldtwistle, Rishton, Burnley and Clitheroe.

Since 2000, with a struggling Gateway was taken over by eMachines, this left only Dell as Compaq's major competitor, however Dell became the number one supplier of PCs in 2001.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3. 0 later the same year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

Many dot-coms named themselves with onomatopoeic nonsense words that they hoped would be memorable and not easily confused with a competitor.

Analogously, the producer compares marginal revenue ( identical to price for the perfect competitor ) against the marginal cost of a good, with marginal profit the difference.

In 1999, the Krupp Group merged with its largest competitor, Thyssen AG ; the combined company — ThyssenKrupp AG, became Germany's fifth-largest firm and one of the largest steel producers in the world.

A scorable in a kendo competition ( tai-kai ) is defined as an accurate strike or thrust made onto a datotsu-bui of the opponent's kendo-gu with the shinai making contact at its datotsu-bu, the competitor displaying high spirits, correct posture and followed by zanshin.

LG claimed the smartphone LG Optimus Black with an IPS LCD ( LCD NOVA ) has the brightness up to 700 nits, while the competitor has only IPS LCD with 518 nits and double an Active-matrix OLED ( AMOLED ) display with 305 nits.

If the competitor starts the leap with any part of the foot past the foul line, the jump is declared a foul and no distance is recorded.

The competitor with the longest legal jump ( from either the trial or final rounds ) at the end of competition is declared the winner.

Telcon invented Mu-metal to compete with Permalloy, the first high permeability alloy used for cable compensation, whose patent rights were held by competitor Western Electric.

In 1708, for example, the East India Company merged with an erstwhile competitor to restore its monopoly over Indian trade.

Each competitor is credited with their longest throw, regardless of whether it was achieved in the preliminary or final rounds.

The competitor with the longest legal put is declared the winner.

A merger between Square and its competitor Enix was in consideration since at least 2000 ; however, the financial failure of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within made Enix hesitant to join with a company which was losing money, and the merge was delayed until April 1, 2003, when the two companies finally merged to form Square Enix.

This merger followed shortly after Telia's failed merger with Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, now its chief competitor in the Nordic countries.

This started in the early 90s ' and was only met with a similar motivated competitor in 2004 called REM FM.

Beginning in 2009, a kick or punch that makes contact with the opponent's hogu ( the body guard that functions as a scoring target ) scores one point ; if a kick to the hogu involved a technique that includes fully turning the attacking competitor's body, so that the back is fully exposed to the targeted competitor during execution of the technique ( spinning kick ), an additional point is awarded ; a kick to the head scores three points ; as of October 2010 an additional point is awarded if a turning kick was used to execute this attack.

He would go on to win the match and earn a world title shot, last eliminating Randy Orton, he lasted 62 minutes making him the person to be the longest lasting competitor in the Royal Rumble.

Despite this, in years on air, Soul Train will continue to hold the honor of the longest, continuously running first-run syndicated program in television history until at least 2016, if and when its nearest competitor, Entertainment Tonight, completes its 35th season.

The Miami Metropolis, which later became The Miami News was founded in 1896 and the Heralds longest competitor until 1988 when it went out of business.

The winner is the competitor who achieves the longest distance on one of the 3 or 6 attempts.

* 1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

* Georg Hackl, first Winter Olympics competitor to win five consecutive medals with consecutively two silver and three gold medals in the men's single luge event

* Subway – Largest single brand competitor in fast food restaurants in terms of number of locations.

His competitor in the event, which consisted of a single bout of foil fencing to three touches, was one of the best fencers in the world, the Frenchman Jean Maurice Perronet.

The airline was founded as charter carrier Trans-Pacific Airlines by publisher Ruddy Tongg as a competitor to Hawaiian Airlines, commencing operations on July 26, 1946, with a single World War II-surplus Douglas C-47 ( DC-3 ) on a flight from Honolulu to Maui and Hilo.

These practices meant that Optus was ( and still is ) the single largest customer of their competitor, Telstra.

:* The ESCORT event had a single competitor robot escort a defenseless " drone " robot across the arena while a " house robot " attempted to attack the drone.

In 1978 he issued the single " The Grandest Lady of Them All " honoring the Grand Ole Opry, but for the first time since 1967, a single of his failed to reach top ten status as some radio stations refused to play a song honoring the property of a competitor ( broadcast by WSM-AM ).

This means that rather than entering in a single event at a district qualifying competition, a competitor enters in two events.

A single competitor plays several parts, which are differentiated using " pops " between various positions and voices, each representing a different character.

The competitor is required to make a single cut or cookie through one large log.

If more than one of the qualification places was won by a single competitor or more than two were won by a single NOC, the field was brought up to 32 competitors by selecting the highest-rated pentathlete on the UIPM ranking list of 1 June 2004.

Also, instead of a single competitor in the ring, there are several riders in the ring at one time.

Finally the only competitor to ever achieve total victory, winning every single competition by a long shot, was Armin Escher the current president of the ULSU.

The team had a disastrous single season, and failed to make the grid in all 14 attempted starts during the 1990 season, often clocking in laps many seconds slower than its next competitor.

Missing a single target in a large ATA or NSSA match means the competitor has a limited chance of winning, whereas missing a target in Bunker or International Trap still allows a competitor a good shot at victory.

It was only the night before, that the pair appeared on the BBC's rival show Top of the Pops, making an announcement after the end credits that they would be on next weeks show, performing the single on CD: UK with Cohen intentionally pretending that he thinks he is on CD: UK when he's actually on the BBC's competitor, only for Shaggy to tell him that he's got the name of the show wrong.

Thirdly can mean a competitive advantage in a race, to lead a competitor by a seat is to be in front of them by the length of a single rower's section of a shell.

Also introduced in 2004 was the first new bus model since the Solo, the Tempo, a full size single decker with another striking design, even when considered in the environment of increasingly stylish competitor products.

* Mark Spitz became the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games, swimming as part of the American team in the 400 meter relay.

If, for example a single competitor has the smallest group and highest score, they will be awarded only a win for the smallest group, the next highest score will be awarded the score win.