Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexican paper. While the proposal may be a breakthrough in the debt standoff, the $10 billion in loan relief would still leave Mexico with a daunting load. Moreover, the scheme may not be readily adaptable for such other debtor nations as Brazil and Argentina, which cannot match Mexico's relatively healthy $15 billion in foreign currency reserves...
...whatever way you look at it--from top to bottom, side to side, or upside down--tonight's match-up is for first place in the ECAC. Both teams have eight wins, good for 16 points, good for number one in the league standings...
...took a 12-11 lead. To keep his crown, Kasparov had to win the 24th and final game. A draw would give him only half a point, and would allow Karpov to regain the title that he had surrendered to Kasparov two years earlier. But in the tense match game, with an astonishing virtuosity, Kasparov forced Karpov to resign. That left the final count tied at 12 and meant he retained his championship. The feat had the capacity crowd of 700 in the ornate Teatro Lope de Vega offering a 20-minute standing ovation. One expert called it the "most...
...match was just the latest installment in the bitter rivalry between the "two Ks," as the competitors are known. The two are a study in chess contrasts. The athletic Kasparov favors flamboyant attacks and unusual defenses. Karpov, on the other hand, plays the game as though he were dissecting a microchip. In his newly published autobiography, Child of Change, Kasparov claims that he is a living example of the new Soviet glasnost and Karpov is a hidebound apparatchik. Karpov, who became champion by default after Bobby Fischer gave up the crown in 1975, has dismissed these charges as merely "part...
Kasparov needs to win the 24th game. He will retain his title should the match finish...