Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...payments needed to support Sweden's welfare benefits would strike most Americans as confiscatory-a worker earning $ 10,800 a year is likely to be hit with taxes of 55%-but compliance is high. In Italy, on the other hand, tax dodging is a national tradition to rival pasta and grand opera. Roughly 20% of Italy's potential taxes go uncollected. While its stockbrokers declare an average annual income of only $6,900, Italy is one of Europe's leading importers of Rolls-Royces and caviar. The unofficial estimate is that 6 million Italian workers, one-third...
...Recco have the swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen table, grouped around the visual pivot of a Delft dish, is so exquisitely designed and so full of severe visual rhymes and harmonies as to rival the best bodegon paintings of Zurbaran...
...Harris vied with her principal rival, Lynne Tryforos, for pride of place in the Tarnower household, there were some nasty incidents. Harris received mysterious, obscene phone calls. She telephoned Tryforos every night for a month. The women alternated in sharing Tarnower's bed and left their belongings in his bathroom. Harris repeatedly tossed out Tryforos' curlers. A favorite dress of Harris' was found smeared with excrement. Harris whined and wheedled as her feelings fluctuated between jealous rage and obsessive dependence. By the time she entered the doctor's bedroom for the last time...
...burly, folksy, reassuring figure of Helmut Kohl, 52. Less than two hours after last Sunday's polling ended, computer projections showed Kohl's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union, gaining an estimated 49.3% of the popular vote. Kohl's Social Democratic rival, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, ran second with 38.2%. The environmentalist, antinuclear Green Party polled around 5%, possibly gaining a disruptive foothold in the Bundestag. The small Free Democratic Party, Kohl's old coalition partner, defied predictions of its demise and bounced back with...
...Safire, 53, nears his tenth anniversary at the Times in April, his twice-weekly "Essay" on politics, distributed to more than 500 daily newspapers, is considered virtually required reading in the inner circles of Government and journalism. Says one admiring rival, Robert Novak, co-author with Rowland Evans of one of the nation's best-known columns: "Safire is the most readable columnist in Washington and the one I can least afford to miss...