Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since she took over three years ago, Indira has attempted to push Congress toward the socialist goals ordained by earlier leaders, including her father Jawaharlal Nehru. But she has run into opposition from disapproving party right-wingers, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, her sole rival in the 1966 and 1967 party elections for the premiership. The right-wingers feel that Indira's all-out socialist policies will severely damage private industry and hurt the national economy; most public-sector industries have proved less efficient and profitable than privately owned ones...
...heat of the San Joaquin Valley during grape-picking time must surely rival hell in its intensity. I lasted less than one day picking, or more accurately "cutting" grapes; and I can testify that picking cotton is fun compared to that...
...after the pact was announced, Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat received a packet rigged to explode when opened. It was hardly a brotherly act, and Fatah was quick to blame Israeli agents. There was some suspicion, however, that rival Arab commandos might have been the guilty senders...
...criminals to major offenders, demanded a so-called "differentiated approach." It would treat the criminals who gave the orders for genocide and massacres far more severely than those who carried them out or were involved in lesser crimes. Fearing that he would be outflanked by Strauss, his main rival, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger went along with the Bavarians. So did the rest of the party. Faced with the new position of their senior partners in the coalition, the Socialists had no practical alternative except to agree to a compromise solution. Both parties wanted to get the law passed before September...
...into license-renewal delays because the FCC is investigating whether its ownership by the San Fran cisco Chronicle constitutes undue concentration of media control. Because of interlocking ownership of professional sports teams by its parent company, and in turn, its owners, WCCO-TV in Minneapolis is charged by its rival station with having a monopoly on sports news. The FCC is currently conducting hearings on these charges...