London was the commercial and financial center of the world from the defeat of Napoleon until the rise of Hitler; Paris, its perennial competitor, was an international cultural magnet from the building of Versailles through the death of Albert Camus.
And in a game where LA became the first MLS side to reach 1000 league goals in their history, New York got more than one reminder of how far they, stars and all, still have to go to be that kind of perennial competitor.
Perennial competitor Pixar Animation received only middling reviews for its 2013 release, "Monsters University," and this year's DreamWorks Animation titles "The Croods" and "Turbo" failed to inspire much enthusiasm either.
Despite free loans and rebates worth several thousand dollars, G.M. and Ford are losing sales to perennial competitors like Toyota and newer rivals like Hyundai.
Google wrote a check with a lot of zeros for the prime realestate, but with the technology sector competing with perennial competitors like manufacturing and agriculture for mindshare, it's given everyone in Silicon Valley the loudest voice at a very important political gathering.
Last year, U.S. News, the perennial third-place competitor owned by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, became as much about consumer advice and ranking products and services as about news.
Considering that the high-profile and defunct Veoh was a perennial top-10 competitor in video, one wonders: is anything other than No. 1 or No. 2 in video really a winning a strategy?
But Mr. Reilly said the animated block could become a reasonable competitor to the perennial powerhouse in that time period, NBC's "Saturday Night Live".
Box, Dropbox's perennial and more concisely named competitor, added comprehensive OCR last year, though with the added capability of recognizing objects.
For decades, the pattern, as many in Britain view it, has been for the national teams and top British competitors to be perennial underachievers, staging the occasional spectacular victory but more often falling badly short, as Britain's highly rated rugby team did when it lost to France in the quarterfinals of the current World Cup in New Zealand.
Well sure — unless you're a perennial third-place network trying to send a message to your nearest competitor, on whom you just happen to have been gaining steadily in recent months.
