Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC IS about the Rennaissance poet, playwright, soldier and all-around wit who was afflicted with a huge you-know-what. In love with his cousin Roxanne, Cyrano ends up aiding his rival Christian in winning her affections by supplying the good-looking but vacant boy with his specially crafted sweet nothings...
...Crimson women's lacrosse team, seventh ranked in the nation, travels to Hanover, N.H. to meet rival Dartmouth to decide the Ivy title...
...Harvard women's track team welcomed rival Yale to McCurdy Track on Saturday. Unfortunately, the hosts were a little too accomodating, allowing the Elis to snatch all the booty in a 87-53 victory...
...suspend martial law for the first time in 8 1/2 years. Zia took power in a 1977 coup d'etat that overthrew Benazir's father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Two years later, he allowed the elder Bhutto to be hanged in connection with an alleged murder plot against a political rival. Last year Zia engineered the ^ first steps toward a new Pakistani democracy by allowing long-promised parliamentary elections, though he banned political parties. After martial law was lifted, he turned over many government functions to a civilian council led by Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo...
...anchored WBBM's 6 p.m. weekday program. The station moved Porterfield to weekend anchor chores to make room for the returning Bill Kurtis, a former WBBM anchor who had left his post in 1982 to join the CBS Morning News. When the disaffected Porterfield was wooed by rival WLS-TV, WBBM offered to boost his salary to $300,000. After WLS again raised the ante, reportedly to a five-year contract worth more than $2 million, Porterfield opted to join WLS as a reporter and substitute anchor...