Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, as mild, springlike weather temporarily warmed much of the U.S. and Europe, an all-out price war seemed to be getting under way. To boost their shares of the energy market, hard-pressed members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and rival suppliers Britain, Norway and Mexico have been flooding the world with an ocean of oil. The battle reflects the aggressive new tactics of Saudi Arabia, the largest OPEC producer, which has doubled its output in recent months. "The Saudis shocked the market," said one U.S. oil expert. "It was like being hit over the head with...
BRIGGS IS BEAUTIFUL," said many Cabot House residents who before last week may have thought they would never see the fruits of Quad renovations in their Harvard lifetime. Indeed, $4 million renovations to the aging Radcliffe building have turned the former pit into a respectable dormitory that might rival the majestic river houses...
...team is now 4-4 and has an important meet coming up Saturday against arch-rival Cornell. "If we could be 1-20," Coach John Lee said about the rivalry, "I would be happy if the one win was over Cornell...
Many oil-industry officials were stunned by the decision and could see little hope for Texaco, but others felt that another court will still force a compromise or lower the settlement. In 1980 AT&T was initially ordered to pay its long-distance rival MCI $1.8 billion for thwarting competition in the telephone business. The amount was later reduced to $113.4 million...
...seems far fresher and more vital than The Twilight Zone. No supernatural morality plays here; just some deft storytelling and a refreshingly sardonic view of human nature. Hitchcock characters are greedy, vengeful and nasty (Martin Sheen, for instance, as a dissolute, over-the-hill actor who kills a young rival), and good people as well as bad are subject to the capriciousness of fate...