pace-setter

Atari SA, a onetime pace-setter in videogames, has a new plan to become relevant again.

Atari Takes a Trip Back to the Future

Cisco, a longtime pace-setter in high-tech markets, has been struggling to boost its revenues and has faced stiffer competition for one class of networking gear called switching systems.

Cisco Predicts More Hardship, Further Cuts

As the world-record holder in the 3,000-meter run at the time, he figured Waitz would make a good pace-setter for other runners in the contest.

Marathon Legend Waitz Dies at 57

The IG Metall union's negotiated 3.2% wage increase for Volkswagen workers last month is likely to be a pace-setter for industry overall during the current round of country-wide negotiations.

Slippery Slope for EU After Oil Shock

When it comes to "cause marketing," — the pairing of a product or brand with a social mission — Mr. Mycoskie is a pace-setter.

Charity Gives Shoe Brand Extra Shine

Edgar Dobie, Arena's managing director, says that ticket sales are far outstripping the company's former pace-setter, a 2002 production of "South Pacific."

"Oklahoma!": Quick out of the gate

Clearly, the EPO is regarded as the pace-setter among the world's leading patent offices; both the Koreans and the Chinese have improved significantly, but still have work to do.

Which Patent Office Does It Best? Survey Says: "The EPO"

On Net-A-Porter, the industry pace-setter for designer accessories and apparel, I found 240 pairs of flats, 300 pairs of high heels, and 24 pairs of mid-heels, 13 of them cute.

Meredith Barnett: To Plod or To Totter

Krueger was of little use in the firefight as the pace-setter for the group.

Thunder and Ashes

Race director Fred Lebow invited her thinking she would make a good pace-setter for the elite women's field.

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