Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closed out the regular season yesterday with a 9-3 rout of 13th-place Yale (5-21-3, 2-21-3). The victories over the Elis and the Tigers (15-13-1, 14-11-1) gave the Crimson 49 points in the conference--eight points more than its closest competitor--and extended the nation's longest winning streak to 25 games...
Yale--the closest competitor behind Brown, Princeton and Harvard--could only manage 405 points, more than 200 points behind the Crimson women, to finish fourth...
...across the border, I had the chance to observe Mao's last days, when the notorious Gang of Four reduced China to chaos and near anarchy. I thought then that Luce was probably right. China was a country that couldn't be trusted, as an ally or as a competitor, and the diplomats who thought otherwise, preferring what we now call "constructive engagement" to containment, were making a mistake...
...Golden Gloves is one of the most prestigious all-amateur boxing titles. Friday's competition, held in Lowell, Mass., pitted Liu against the only other woman in her division--"a tough competitor," in Liu's words...
...show like South Park, which is to say that the irony is often barely discernible, white noise for a generation that likes to laugh unapologetically at poo and look at pictures of breasts without feeling that Patricia Ireland is peeking over anyone's shoulders. In its British form, like competitor FHM, Maxim is what is known as a "laddie" magazine, the periodical of choice for soccer hooligans. Its real secret is that virtually all the articles are terribly short. It's a magazine for people who don't like to read--for men, in other words...