Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mart today dots 15 states, chiefly in the South and Midwest. Yet the stores try to tailor themselves to individual communities. Golf slacks may move well in one store, Wrangler jeans in another. By contrast, the 2,117 stores in the K mart chain, Wal-Mart's principal rival, mostly offer identical merchandise...
Armed with that wisdom, Thatcher and her chief lieutenants scheduled an election-strategy session for Sunday at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country retreat. Thatcher was under pressure from Tory backbenchers to schedule a vote as early as next month. A snap election, they argued, would catch the rival major parties in disarray and take advantage of an improving economy. Others argued that a hasty vote would only damage the Prime Minister's credibility, which rests largely on a reputation for doggedly staying the course. Thatcher refused to discuss any date whatsoever. While the nation braced...
...Fleet Street, other editors pounced on Stern and the rival Sunday Times with a vengeance that in this instance seemed justified. "It was the day the thunder of the Times turned into a whimper and the Sunday Times was forced to sniff the stench of self-deceit," crowed the Daily Express. Its story accused "the executives" of Stern and the Sunday Times of having committed "the biggest journalistic blunder for years...
...sponsored by Cuba's Fidel Castro, De la Guardia in 1959 invoked the Rio Treaty, calling on his neighbors to help repel the threat. The "invaders" turned out to be a comic-opera troupe of adventurers who had been recruited by De la Guardia's chief political rival, Roberto Arias, and his wife Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. As the coup fizzled, Arias fled, Fonteyn was arrested, and the Cubans, repudiated by Castro, were induced to surrender by a delegation from the Organization of American States...
...Moscow, meanwhile, rumors of a continuing power struggle resurfaced last week when Andropov's presumed chief rival, Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko, 71, failed to show up at Lenin's Mausoleum for the May Day festivities. His office explained that Chernenko, who has not been seen in public since March 30, was suffering from pneumonia. Andropov, wearing tinted glasses, seemed tired and frail; two days later, when he presented Honecker with the Order of Lenin, his hands trembled, further fueling rumors that he is not well...