Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a 5-0 record, the Crimson next meets crosstown rival Boston University, Saturday at Soldiers Field...
Octaviano ("Chito") Longoria, 73, who started out selling gardenias on the streets of Nuevo Laredo, built a commercial empire that included banks, cattle ranches, movie theaters and a vegetable oil factory. His house in Bosques de las Lomas, he boasts, would rival any in the world. The mansion has a chamber bedecked with the heads of animals Longoria acquired on his 20 African safaris, and a "pink room" that is dominated by a huge rug of that color given to him by Morocco's royal family. Unlike many of Mexico's new rich, Longoria makes generous donations to charity...
Despite its smaller size and financial troubles, U.P.I. has been faster to embrace advanced technology and new lines of business than its larger rival. U.P.I. has invested more than $21 million over the past decade to automate its news-gathering operations and has opened a $10 million computer center in Dallas (corporate headquarters will remain in New York City, a few blocks from A.P.'s). U.P.I. began audio reporting for radio in 1957, and now supplies news reports to roughly 1,000 stations, 300 more than A.P. In early 1977, the company established a commodity wire report with Knight...
...account for 15% of U.P.I. revenues, most of the proceeds from the sale of stock will go toward improving news coverage, and competition with A.P. should heighten. "We feel strongly that the country needs two vital news services," says Beaton. Alas, U.P.I. last week was unable to upstage its rival on one major story, though it definitely had the edge on inside information. Because of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that prohibits a company from advertising a stock offering, U.P.I. could not report news of its forthcoming partnership sale...
Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that...