Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once commanded 2,500 men, has been reduced to door-to-door fund raising in San Jose, Costa Rica's capital. There have been reports of Pastora's followers selling their guns for food. On the Caribbean Coast, an estimated 1,000 Miskito Indian rebels are divided into two rival factions and poorly equipped...
...million shares, or 9.6%. Meanwhile, shareholders of Phillips Petroleum, which tangled with Pickens in 1984, met in Bartlesville, Okla., to vote on a plan that would give Pickens and his partners an $89 million profit on an aborted takeover battle. Rejection of the plan would open the way for Rival Raider Carl Icahn to continue his pursuit of the company. But it could increase Pickens' potential gains by pushing up the value of the Phillips shares that he owns. The result of the vote is expected this week. If the plan is defeated, Phillips could be forced to buy back...
...created him (also played by Daniels, who is, to borrow one of Tom's favorite words, "fetching" in both roles). In two shakes of a trimotor's tail the West Coast crowd is on the scene, trying to hush things up. This of course puts Gil in place to rival Tom for Cecilia's affections. If fictive Tom reflects innocence in its purest form, Gil embodies it in the hilariously impure form of actor's ego. His conversation consists mostly of quotations from his favorite notices and cheerful agreement with Cecilia's compliments. Daniels thus has two voices...
...mood to whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy: "Don't be silly. He's a nice man. If he had asked me, I would have moved in with him myself...
...course, for bidden in Ohio, the kids is forced to rehearse in abandoned warehouses and to run away to New York without telling their parents. New York, that mecca of artistic opportunity, proves to be tougher than this bunch bargained for. Braving myriad evils, from muggers to threatening rival dance groups, from discouraging agents to hordes of mohawked, leather-clad punks, the Adventurous Eight pirouette their way to stardom, shedding only a few poignant tears of disappointment along...