Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia's East European satellites, also adjusting to an economic slowdown, are increasingly asserting their own national identities and seeking warmer relations with the West. Soviet Russia, after all the years of proud self-sufficiency, now faces the humiliation of having to buy its food from the capitalist rival. Moscow's hopeful plan is to spend up to $10 billion for Western chemical plants in the next few years...
France and Britain are already far along in their $500 million program to develop their own supersonic airliner, the needle-nosed Concorde. Last week, in a surprise turnabout, the British and French state-owned airlines-BOAC and Air France-placed six orders apiece for the rival U.S. supersonic transport. Though the exact design of the American SST has not yet been determined, the plane will definitely be bigger and faster, and will have a longer range than the Mach 2.2 Concorde. The British-French move not only gave a heartening boost to the U.S. project but stirred new doubts about...
...comparison between a single Latin American nation and a European country might be more relevant" Brazil, which may rival the Soviet Union China, and the United States as one of the super-powers if its present growth rate continues, could be compared to France. Forty courses are listed in the catalogue, well over twenty for undergraduates, which discuss French literature and language. This excludes many courses devoted to French society, government and political philosophy...
...justice of a state (or mayor of a town) pick new judges from a list of names submitted by an impartial nominating committee of leading lawyers and laymen. The electorate gets its say only after the judge has served a while. And then he does not run against a rival, he merely asks the voters, periodically, to approve him and his record. If he is turned down by the electorate, the vacancy is filled by the same appointive plan...
...casualties in the process. After the transistor was invented, it caused trouble for many vacuum-tube producers, later suffered itself from overproduction and slashed prices. The transistor went on to spur the growth of the U.S. electronics industry to a record $16 billion. But now it has a rival-the microcircuit, a tiny device that represents a bigger advance over the transistor than the transistor did over the bulky vacuum tube. Last year some $20 million worth of microcircuits (mostly as missile components) were sold by a dozen companies, but the rush of firms to get into the business...