Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army-Navy or Notre Dame-Southern California, non-conference show-downs built on a tradition of excellent football. Any rivalry can turn a season around; a team with a losing record likes nothing better than to trip up frontrunner and it is that much sweeter if it's their rival...
Although the Sun-Times (circ. 639,000) was in the black ($3.3 million) last year, the rival Tribune (circ. 751,000) has 64.5% of the advertising market. Murdoch assured the Sun-Times's 2,000 employees last week that no major changes were planned. Few were convinced. Some fear that Murdoch's political conservatism will still the paper's liberal voice. While the Sun-Times condemned the Grenada invasion, Murdoch's Post endorsed it. Another warning: at a press conference, the new owner noted that recent acquisitions now receiving the Murdoch treatment "are making great progress...
CHICAGO IS Rupert Munloch's kind of town. Ten days ago, the Australian tycoon paid $90 million to buy the Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's seventh largest newspaper and the Chicago Tribune's main rival. 'The Sun-Times reported the story on its front page, beneath a guide to the paper's memorial section in honor of George Halas. The owner and former couch of the Bears had just died. In his column that day. Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times writer Mike Royko said goodbye to "a classic Chicagoan." Others in Chicago undoubtedly said goodbye to the Sun-Times...
...groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could be, and Ihe high school football team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival. The only escape route for Stefan Djordjevic (Cruise) is a college sports scholarship, and his prospects look grim: the coach (Craig T. Nelson) thinks Stef has a "bad attitude." He needs Ihe love of his good woman Lisa (Lea Thompson) lo keep him from falling into the slough of his family...
...conventional wisdom holds that Shultz is the bureaucratic winner. Up to now, he has been reluctant to enter the political fray, seldom advocating tough policy positions within the Administration. He has been a reassuring gray eminence, radiating sobriety and good sense. Now the Secretary of State has no rival stationed at the White House whom he has to outmaneuver. With U.S. entanglements around the world unusually complex and dangerous, it is a good time for George Shultz to step out front - and maybe even make some waves...