Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contest for the U.S. Senate nomination, Democratic Representative Wyche Fowler defeated Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff in Jimmy Carter's White House. But Fowler faces a formidable rival in November, when he tries to unseat conservative Republican Senator Mack Mattingly...
...until now the highest-paid player in pro football at $1.5 million a year. After the U.S.F.L. announced it would suspend play next season, Walker dropped to third or fourth on the pay scale by signing a reported five-year, $5 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys of the rival National Football League. Nonetheless, "to get to play in a Cowboys uniform and in Texas is a great honor for me," he said at a news conference. But some of his new teammates were not so happy, notably the veteran running back Tony Dorsett. "To bring someone in here...
...Hollywood embezzlement scandal, for a reported salary of $2 million a year. MCI riposted with Burt Lancaster and Comic Joan Rivers. Sprint was represented for a time by Psychologist Joyce Brothers. The campaign has also extended beyond the airwaves to local shopping malls and amusement parks, where the rival long-distance suppliers have even hired acrobats and clowns to promote their cause...
...produced all four segments in the past five years; there is a production under way at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y. Next month the Metropolitan Opera begins its new Ring with the second opera in the cycle, Die Walkure. Yet for sheer audaciousness, none of these companies are likely to rival the Seattle Opera, which opened a new Ring last week to an invigorating chorus of lusty cheers and outraged boos. Long coddled by safe, representational operatic productions, the American public is getting a chance to see what directorial interpretation, so common in Europe, is all about...
Charles Triplett, 16, is shot in the back and dies. He was a member of a gang known as the Q Boys. Police charge two members of a rival gang, the Vice Lords, with murder...