Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson copped the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England, with a three and two-third lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years...
...were vacationing, the Men's Varsity Crew team was off in England busy winning the world's premier rowing regatta. The Crimson took the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Rowing Regatta in Henley-on-Thames with a three-and-two-thirds lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years. Harvard had not won the prestigious event since...
...part by using "such tools as profit, pricing, credit and self-sufficiency of enterprises," all designed to achieve less, not more, central control. Contradictory though his program might be, Gorbachev implied that his stress on revving up the Soviet economy would require a relatively peaceful, stable relationship with the rival superpower if he is to realize his goals. At the end of the interview, he asked his visitors to "ponder one thing . . . What are the external conditions that we need to be able to fulfill those domestic plans? I leave the answer to that question with you." The answer...
...performance indicated that the Great Communicator in the White House may meet a worthy rival at Geneva. But the portents of the interview go far beyond their implications for the summit. Western Kremlinologists often observe that Gorbachev is young enough to be directing policy into the 21st century, if only he can consolidate his power. The commanding air he projected throughout his meeting with TIME gave some clues to the qualities that have brought him close to that goal in a phenomenally short time...
...officials in major cities and republic ministries have been fired. At the top, Gorbachev has named four new voting members of the Politburo, bringing its membership to 13, and nine new government ministers. Grigory Romanov, 62, the Leningrad party boss who was widely considered to be Gorbachev's chief rival, was unceremoniously dumped from the Politburo and Secretariat; officially he resigned for reasons of health. Gromyko, 76, was artfully nudged upstairs to the prestigious but largely % ceremonial post of President and head of state, and replaced as Foreign Minister by Eduard Shevardnadze, 67, a white-haired Georgian with an engaging...