Word: rival
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to drum up support, Carter will find some Democrats openly hostile. Not only are the $1,000-a-plate tickets for the Democratic National Committee dinner moving slowly, but some onetime Carter supporters have formed a group called Democrats for Change, 1980, and are staging a rival dinner. Says one of them, TV Producer Norman Lear: "What we need more than anything else is someone to give us a sense of purpose...
...agreed to pick up the programs once they start. Some 200 cable-TV stations, however, have signed up to make gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House available to their subscribers. Given the chamber's arcane procedures and routine business, not even Tip O'Neill expects to rival Mork as a TV personality, and the ratings of the soaps will not be threatened by the daily travails and dramas in the Big House on the Hill...
...rival gangs of armed youths have carried on a running feud that claimed more than 1,000 lives in 1978 and 30 so far this year. There are signs that the terrorists will now turn to selective assassination of moderate targets like Abdi Ipekçi, the influential editor of Istanbul's daily Milliyet, whose unsolved murder early this month shocked the country. At the same time, sectarian clashes have broken out between Sunni Muslims, who tend to be right-wingers, and Shi'ite Muslims, who tend toward the left. Last December at Maras in central Turkey...
...decade, Wichita has opened a flying saucer-shaped civic center that dominates downtown, a 12,200-seat coliseum for conventions and cattle shows, one of the nation's better Indian museums, two art museums, a planetarium, a zoo and three new libraries. That hardly makes the community a rival to, say, Chicago. Yet almost everything is up to date in this Kansas city, and that is a good sign for the nation that surrounds...
This month he extends that record with the publication of his 200th book. Leave it to Asimov to complicate things by passing the milestone twice. With rival publishers equally eager to bring out the landmark work, the author has satisfied both by assigning the same number to two offerings...