Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broke out again in South Arabia between members of the two groups. At least 17 persons were killed, 400 injured and more than 20 others kidnaped, including two federal policemen. The N.L.F. accused FLOSY of starting it all and swore "vengeance in full," but in Cairo leaders of the rival group pleaded with their followers to "halt the bloodshed and unite...
Roles for Rivals. As president, Cole stands to earn about $600,000 a year in salary and bonuses; yet he will not have all of Roche's former responsibilities. He will concentrate primarily on the U.S. automobile business; Executive Vice President Semon E. ("Bunky") Knudsen, 55, who heads G.M.'s growing international operations and was considered Cole's chief rival, will also take charge of defense and nonauto business in the U.S. and report directly to Roche...
...clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about his "edifice complex," Ahmanson is widely admired among S. & L. men. "We may be jealous, but we can't be critical," says President Edward L. Johnson of rival Financial Federation...
Many observers felt that Mayor Hayes, who finished ninth in 1965, was running poorly until he began his anti-hippie campaign. Since then, he has probably picked up enough votes in his North Cambridge base to edge ahead of his chief rival, Thomas W. Danehy...
...mile-high capital of Katmandu. He has not only managed to keep his landlocked, Wisconsin-size nation from being swallowed up by its giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce and is pledged to defend the kingdom, has built a rival road south...