"Over the years," he said, "I thought I'd love to read more about Hinault, his ferocity, his competitiveness — he would always have this snarl on his face".
If Richard Petty had learned a lesson about his father's competitiveness that day, he also had already learned much from him about the workings of a race car. Lee Petty, who was voted the mechanic of the year in 1950 by journalists, did much of the work on his cars with some help from his sons, Richard and Maurice, his only children.
Early in Woods' career, a small number of golf experts expressed concern about his impact on the competitiveness of the game and the public appeal of professional golf.
Almost everyone I spoke to about him remarked on his ferocious competitiveness — the sort of intensity that, among other things, drives Nesbø not to let society or history have the last word on his father.
"This is very much about economics, it's about competitiveness in this country," said Stephen Apkon, who founded the center in 2000.
He does not bother to sheath his protectionist urges in pablum about competitiveness, preferring prosecutorial accusation of trade infringement.
Matteo Renzi, Italy Renzi has a youthful, centrist dynamism similar to Cameron's, and his efforts to reform the Italian economy echo the renegotiation demands about European competitiveness.
Where the right worries about promiscuity, the left worries about competitiveness and materialism, but everyone agrees that we are facing a child-rearing emergency.
Convergent sources of evidence relating to spatial geography, phylogeny, and anatomy suggest that men's morphology may have been subject to stronger intrasexual than intersexual selection (Puts 2010) and may convey more information about competitiveness than about heritable viability as a result.
