Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rival Ambitions. In the bitter battle over medicare, Johnson also lost the whole Social Security bill to which medicare was attached. Passed by both houses, this bill would have provided $5 to $7 raises monthly for some 20 million persons on Social Security. It collapsed in conference when three Democratic Senators - Louisiana's Russell Long, Florida's George Smathers and Tennessee's Albert Gore - refused to approve the bill unless medicare was included. Gore even threatened a filibuster. The three held out because each wanted to uphold the Senate position, thus gain more points in their rival...
Even with Der Dicke's face on the posters, the voters gave Willy Brandt's rival Social Democrats an overall gain of nearly 5%. In West Germany's populous industrial Rhine River heartland, the Socialists won absolute majorities in 24 of the 38 major cities-including Konrad Adenauer's traditionally safe bastion of Cologne...
...altitudes for American. But he was not granted a firm grip on the stick. C. R. Smith, American's strong-minded president ever since the airline was founded in 1934, remained the boss from his new post of chairman. William J. Hogan, who had been Sadler's rival for the job, continued to hold on tightly to the purse strings as executive vice president and chairman of the finance committee. For Sadler, 53, who had climbed from ramp attendant to president in 23 years, the built-in frustrations proved too much. Last week he resigned for "personal reasons...
Princeton, one of the top favorites for the Ivy League title, will have to prove it is as good as its press notices. The Tigers did not look extraordinary last week in beating Rutgers, 10-7 and meanwhile, Yale, considered the Tigers' top Ivy rival, looked very impressive in battering Connecticut...
...Rival for Dickens. Why are the workers so mad at G.M.? Speaking in terms that might have seemed suitable to Charles Dickens or Lincoln Steffens, Reuther charged that G.M. was "unwilling to provide workers with the minimum conditions of human decency." The company, he added, also schedules excessive overtime and disciplines workers without informing them of charges against them. The workers may have some justified grievances. G.M. is tougher than the other auto companies in imposing discipline and controlling working conditions, allows no infringements on managerial efficiency. But Reuther was plainly exaggerating. In fact, he was less interested in improved...