Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sony introduced the first videotape recorders, which let people make copies of their favorite television programs or play tapes of movies on their TV screens. Two years later Matsushita announced a cheaper recorder that worked on a rival technology, known as VHS, which used different-size tapes and made recordings for up to six hours, while the Betamax machine could play for only three hours. The longer tapes were particularly popular with sports fans who wanted to record football or baseball games. Matsushita then outmaneuvered Sony by adding extra features to its recorders, providing licenses to other companies that wanted...
...second commission appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos to investigate the Aug. 21 assassination of former Senator Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino was running up one blind alley after another. The five-member board had heard 43 witnesses, most of them soldiers assigned to protect Marcos' chief political rival on his ill-fated return to the Philippines from exile in the U.S. Their stories were monotonously similar: at the moment of the slaying, each had been "searching the perimeter" of the security cordon for troublemakers. On hearing the fatal gunshot, each had turned back toward the plane from which Aquino had disembarked...
...Rival financiers originally laughed at the proposal, but last week they stopped abruptly. Dean Witter Reynolds paid Merrill Lynch $1 million in an out-of-court settlement in a case involving patent rights for the CMA. The legal battles over the CMA, though, have only begun. Paine Webber has gone into federal court in Delaware questioning the validity of the patent, and Merrill Lynch reportedly is considering suits against Prudential-Bache and Shearson/American Express, which also have CMA clones...
...allowing for the recent rise in the critical fortunes of André Masson, the painter who introduced Miró to the surrealist group, it still seems clear that, as a draftsman and colorist, as an inventor of epigrammatic shapes set in exquisitely pure pictorial fields, Miró had no rival within that movement...
...Keverian claims that McGee violated a trust when he announced that, far from abdicating, he had every intention of seeking re-election as Speaker in 1985. Betrayed by his mentor, Keverian threw down the gauntlet last October, proclaiming that he would oppose McGee as a rival candidate in the future election. Keverian's challenge had an immediate polarizing effect on the House, as representatives scurried to choose up sides. The battle lines were fairly well drawn only days later when McGee drew first blood: Keverian was sacked as Majority Leader and demoted to the status of rank and file member...