Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rival structure to the HPC has been shakily taking shape in the last two months. It is called the Harvard Education Project and plans to make a sweeping study--perhaps taking as long as two years--to determine how closely Harvard approximates an ideal University and what should be changed here. Norr says that he first understood that the project would be "a temporary super-committee of the HPC," but it now seems more likely that those running the project, activists by disposition, will want to issue policy papers recommending reforms themselves...
...turned aside Michigan Governor George Romney's "friendly" challenge to debate because "the only winner of a debate between Republicans would be Lyndon Johnson." He expressed his "great respect" for Nelson Rockefeller, but refused to count him as a rival now because "your opponent is the man in the arena with you, not the man in the grandstand rooting for the man who's in the arena." Although the early opinion polls have made Nixon the heavy favorite over Romney in New Hampshire, he declared that defeat in the Granite State "will not be fatal to either candidate...
...allies' growing momentum, Giap, true to his own maxims and proven experience against the French, argued for an abandonment of large-scale or big-unit fighting and a return to guerrilla warfare in the south that might last for 10 or 20 years. His chief opponent and longtime rival, General Nguyen Chi Thanh, wanted to stick with big-unit warfare. Thanh had the advantage of being closest to the action as head of all Communist operations in South Viet Nam from his headquarters northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border, and he prevailed in the Politburo...
...Hurt by competition from foreign imports and the cost of new equipment, most steel companies suffered sharp earnings declines in 1967. Net income of U.S. Steel, the industry leader, dropped 31%, to $172,499,331 on sales of $4.07 billion. While that decline was a year-long affair, several rival steelmakers-including Bethlehem, Republic and Inland-showed fourth-quarter profit increases as customers started stockpiling in anticipation of a possible steel strike next summer. Other metals companies, among them Kaiser Aluminum and Reynolds Metals, also skidded in 1967; Alcoa managed a 1.2% profit increase, but that reflected receipts from...
Plethora of Parodies. All three schools have been around long enough -U.S.C., the nation's oldest, was founded in 1929-to have developed more or less distinctive styles of their own. U.C.L.A. favors and encourages free-form experimentation. Moviemakers at rival U.S.C. try to put a high professional gloss on their products and are very Hollywood-conscious-so much so that one professor recently complained about the plethora of student parodies of Bonnie and Clyde. N.Y.U. students, by contrast, tend to turn out deliberately rough-hewn works with the grainy look of neorealistic, cinema-verite documentaries-a reflection, perhaps...