Steve Friedman, the executive producer of CBS's morning program, "The Early Show" and one of Mr. Zucker's predecessors at "Today," said he believed that Mr. Zucker's departure could become the kind of opening to competitors that the exits of popular anchors like Jane Pauley and Joan Lunden were in previous periods of ratings shake-ups in the morning.
Yet this leaves an opening for competitors.
This leaves an opening for competitors to come up with alternatives.
If Igor Sechin, the boss of Rosneft, another energy firm, is sanctioned, the effect may be similar.Foreign firms fret that sanctions could also create openings for competitors.
She will carry the Jersey flag in the parade of competitors at the opening ceremony on Saturday, 27 June at Howard Davis Park.
Within China many pessimists fear that domestic industries and agriculture will be crippled by the opening of its markets to foreign competitors, as required by WTO membership.
"F1 teams routinely sneak peeks at one another's cars, mostly in tacitly condoned ways: hiring photographers at the opening of each season to document competitor's cars, watching news feeds of vehicles being lifted by cranes for transport to estimate weight distribution, exchanging gossip and secrets with insiders from other teams," Mark Seal wrote in Wired.
The KFC fast food chain is on the offensive, attacking what it calls the "bland" and "ordinary" fare sold by hamburger competitors in the opening of a $30 million campaign to stimulate sales of its menu items.
When he carried the Swiss flag during the opening ceremony, competitors from many countries, a variety of sports, rushed up to shake his hand, to request a pose.
He said staging the Games was a "gynormous" task but the opening of the first Olympics-only road Games Lane and the first big arrival of competitors had gone well.
