There was a doll collection in her pink office (with her motto "Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere" pinned on the wall) but children went unmentioned in Cosmo and her life: she described them as "competitors for attention".
The billion-user social network has emerged as the news business' most potent competitor, capturing attention and advertising on the path to monopoly status.
Besides Mr. Aso, who is 67 and was an Olympic shooting competitor, most attention has gone to Yuriko Koike, 56, a former television anchor and former national security adviser, who is seeking to become Japan's first female prime minister.
Often, in fact, economic giants destroy smaller competitors by obsessive attention to consumer preferences.
They venture into a world that's crowded with competitors for space, attention, love and money.
Under Mr. Connors's leadership, WCNC in Charlotte has earned more regional Emmy nominations for news than any of its competitors, devoting its attention to weighty stories like school desegregation and drawing an educated, affluent audience.
Over the course of Nixon's first term he acted as my partner, strong in crises, decisive in judgment, skilful in bureaucratic infighting... [But] I could not help noticing that Haig was implacable in squeezing to the sidelines potential competitors for my attention".
Competitors are paying attention, says Syracuse.
Holt faces a growing pool of competitors for the attention of music fans.
Take a few minutes to scan the list of attendees and spot the names of people who work for your major competitors, then pay attention to nametags.
