Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several major if not insurmountable drawbacks. In the first place, he suggested that the agency be directed by at least ten men, representing government agencies, the Defense Department, science, engineering, and technology. Such a group is impossibly large and resultingly inefficient and such men, owing allegiances and livelihoods to rival groups, would probably be unable to agree on a vigorous and unified course of action...
Marxist Buddhist. U Nu has also declared that "Marxism and Buddhism are incompatible," but to Burma's surprise the side he chose to join was that of Marxist Thakin Kyaw Dun and his strongly left-wing socialist followers. U Kyaw Nyein emerged as the rival leader, backed by U Ba Swe, Minister of Defense, and Thakin Tha Kin, ex-Home Minister who had been fired by U Nu. Both sides agreed to an equal division of the party's real estate and money, and prepared for a showdown in the August session of Parliament, with the losing side...
...circulation climbed from 543,583 to 638,006, the Sunday Times from 1,092,054 to 1,285,732-and the two papers increased their lion's share of the total advertising carried by all major New York papers from 23.4% to 30.6%. Pitted against the Times, the rival Herald Tribune floundered badly. Its circulation held steady at about half the Times's, even rose a bit. But over the ten-year period, it lost 3.3% of its share...
...Angry Rival. "Pete" Williams' margin was narrow, but it left no doubt that Meyner is now in command of the Jersey Democrats. At the beginning of the campaign, Williams, a personable, articulate Oberlin and Columbia law graduate who was twice elected to Congress from normally Republican Union County, was a vote-drawing favorite. Then dissident Democrats in boss-ridden Hudson County broke with Meyner over patronage. Against Williams they put up John J. Grogan, 44, mayor of Hoboken and president of the Shipbuilders Union. Williams' hopes were dimmed further when New Jersey's un-merged A.F.L...
...fighting back by urging subscribers and advertisers to boycott the Gazette; circulation (11,000) is down 45% and ads are down 40% from pre-strike levels. To make matters worse for the Gazette, Publisher William Loeb of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader has seized the opportunity to start a rival Haverhill paper...