Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time the Battle of Britain is over chocolate bars. Foreigners are threatening to gobble up the country's top two candymakers. Rowntree Mackintosh, the maker of Kit Kat bars, is under attack from two Swiss companies seeking a larger share of the world chocolate market. One contender: Zurich-based...
Lampe said that the national attention focusedon presidential contender Dukakis and his repeatedreferences to the Massachusetts Miracle shouldmake the topic especially relevant.
It took the practiced ear of Richard Nixon to tell us that. Give him his due. He's got a feel for the pols, and he can sum them up with a brutal line or two. On Meet the Press a few weeks ago, Anchor Tom Brokaw asked if Massachusetts...
It is condescending for Matthew H. Joseph ("Questioning Jesse's Credentials," 4/16) to ask, regarding Mr. Jackson, "Why does he think he deserves to be President?", and to assume that Mr. Jackson should have held some major elected office in order to be a serious contender for the Presidency.
That question would be explosive if the contender were a safe token, a man who had held all the right offices, adopted all the sensible positions, and differed from the majority's norms only by the accident of his race. But this contender challenges all the established verities at once...