Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese are sending the funds back overseas by making loans, buying foreign stocks and bonds, and building factories in countries around the globe. Once merely a master manufacturer, Japan is on the way to becoming the world's premier investor and creditor. Its economic and financial clout could eventually rival the power held by Britain in the 19th century and the U.S. after World...
Saturday's meet between the Harvard men's indoor track team and the Northeastern Huskies had come down to the mile-and two-mile relays, and if the Crimson was going to knotch its first victory over its cross-river rival in more than five years, it needed to win both races...
...Lebanon's warring factions. Meanwhile, the Israeli population grew more and more weary with their occupation of southern Lebanon. With their economy in a tailspin (400% inflation then, more than 800% now), the Israelis delivered a mixed, and not very helpful, election verdict. Lacking a clear winner, the two rival blocs, Likud and Labor, set up an unusual arrangement in which the office of Prime Minister would change after 25 months. Shimon Peres, taking the first turn, adopted a clearly warmer tone than former Prime Minister Menachem Begin had toward...
This was interesting to McGowan because he managed a company, Microwave Communications of America (now renamed MCI Communications), that had a rival technology to send long-distance messages by microwave. When AT&T balked at carrying these messages to their final destination over local wires, McGowan went to court. He also persuaded the Justice Department to start antitrust proceedings against...
...invest $1.6 million, which then seemed "an astronomical amount of money." By the end of the year, the scientists produced the world's first commercially manufactured monoclonal antibody, which acted against hepatitis. Licensed just for research, Hybritech sold only $10,000 worth of the first batch, mostly to inquisitive rival labs...