Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the comet will skim by the sun's surface, perhaps as close as 300,000 miles (the sun's diameter is 900,000 miles). Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy, and Brian Marsden of the SAO expect the total brightness of the comet may then, rival that of the crescent moon, and its tail may extend more than half-way from the horizon to the zenith...
...Party, headed by incumbent President Diosdado Macapagal, is running scared. The Nacionalistas are crowing that public-opinion polls show their candidate, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, neck and neck with Macapagal. Both candidates have published glowing biographies. The President's, entitled Macapagal-The Incorruptible, runs over 200 pages. His rival's, called For Every Tear a Victory, is not only fatter and more fulsome, but has been made into a film that runs for three weepy hours. A Manila critic described it as a trilogy: "The first part is about Marcos, the second part is about Marcos...
...Athens' Constitution Square, the scene was much as it often had been during the hot, tense summer. Burly young demonstrators chanted "Papandreou" and "Traitors!" at Deputies emerging from the Parliament building, where scores of them had just deserted former Premier George Papandreou to vote for a rival Premier. If the demonstration seemed angrier than ever, it was because after ten weeks of crisis, Parliament had at last voted its confidence in a leader nominated by young King Constantine...
Precisely because the vast but limited supply is indispensable, water has inevitably aroused bitter disputes; the very word "rival" was used in Roman law as a term for those who shared the water of a rivus, or irrigation channel. The U.S. Supreme Court last year had to settle a longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland...
Last winter the company bought one-third interest in Oregon's largest department-store chain, Meier & Frank and this spring battled its chief rival in Los Angeles, the May Co., to a stalemate when both firms tried to merge with Meier & Frank. Broadway-Hale will open its 29th store, an $8,000,000 building, next month in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. It has 14 other projects in the works, including an expansion in Phoenix that will push Broadway-Hale ahead of its Arizona competitors and new stores in Reno and Las Vegas that will make the company...