Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good news strengthens the hand of Feldstein's chief rival for the President's ear on economic matters, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. "The President thinks Don Regan's advice is better. Don not only tells the President what he likes to hear, but it turns out he was right," says an aide. What Regan tells Reagan is that the President can cut taxes, increase military spending and still have a sustained economic recovery. Regan won a round earlier this year when Feldstein drastically underestimated the strength of the recovery, earning himself the nickname "Dr. Gloom." More recently...
...shuttle diplomacy of Henry Kissinger and later the Camp David accords are examples of he incomplete but crucial progress towards peace that one should expect in that region. Eban remains optimistic about the future of peace in the Mideast as long as the U.S. remains committed to bringing the rival sides together. The Soviet Union, lacking any influence with Israel, will serve as little else in the area than as an arms supplier...
...drama revolves around the relationship between Kit (Rebecca Howe) and Milly (Elsie Marks), two school cronies who rival each other inspite of their longstanding friendship. Kit, sophisticated and cosmopolitan, writes quality books that don't sell. Milly, banal and spitefully petty, writes trashy romances that make the bestseller's list. Milly accuses Kit of luring her husband (Jamie Wolf) and daughter Deidre (Nora Jaskowiak) from her; Deidre unwittingly sweeps Kit's boyfriend Rudd (Matthew Haynes) off his feet. None of this, however, is powerful enough to shatter the relationship between the two, which somehow manages to transcend all differences...
...Palma applies his film-school expertise to Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine...
Harvard had the last laugh on its old rival last night, with the two foes going the separate ways in different leagues next year, scoring all its goals in a 2:27 span in the second period in a 3-1 upset...