Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Ways and Means Committee had haggled for weeks over three rival schemes dealing with medical care for the aged: 1) The Administration's medicare program aimed at compulsory hospital insurance through social security; 2) a Republican alternative proposing a federally assisted voluntary protection system, covering both hospitals and doctors; and 3) "elder-care," the American Medical Association's widely publicized plan, under which federal-state funds would help pay private premiums on the basis of need, in an extension of the 1960 Kerr-Mills Act authorizing aid to the medically indigent elderly...
...standards weren't so high. No member of the squad was allowed to drink or smoke; to break those rules was to beg instant dismissal. His strongest epithet was "jackass," or "double jackass" if he really got carried away, and he used ii so often that a rival coach remarked...
...these splendors just gild what was already there. Even within a single gallery, the Met is worth a thousand and one days of exploration. Only the Louvre and Leningrad's Hermitage, among museums outside of Holland, rival the Met's Rembrandts. Hanging in honeycomb luminosity are 33 of the Dutch master's softest illusions, from his early white-ruffed burghers to intense portraits of his mistress Hendlrickje Stoeffels to his jeweled Old Testament parables and his bravura Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, the costliest work of art ($2,300,000) ever auctioned...
...Elis will be the eighth-seeded team in next week's eight-team ECAC Tournament if they can best the Crimson. This is Harvard's chance to knock its chief rival out of the tourney that it is missing this year for the first time since...
Such adventures might rival an old Tarzan serial, except for old Conrad's pesky profundity. Occasionally, Brooks backtracks to gather up a few platitudes about fate, courage and honor, and asks his actors to breathe life into them. The burden falls to O'Toole, whose best lines are in his clean-cut profile and whose mannerisms parody his flashy style in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything...