Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition and the Government are doing. The Food and Drug Administration, for example, reports that up to 85% of the requests for information come from other businesses. In one case, a report supplied by the agency under the act revealed details of an exclusive filtration process to a rival manufacturer. Congress is now considering a bill to tighten the measure by allowing firms to challenge disclosures more easily...
George Bush has seen nothing in 18 months as Vice President to rival the beauty of the bluebonnets that cloak the Texas hills in June or the autumn colors in New England. These hot days he yearns for the surge of the Maine surf, and now and then he takes a picture of his Maine home out of the top left drawer of his desk and looks at the rocky promontory and the blue ocean. His proximity to power has not taken the poetry out of his life. Perhaps that is why he has become something of a legend...
...acceptance of mass annihilation. Kahn is, in fact, a conservative moralist. He is also a systems evangelist who puts his faith in the power of reason and works hard to appear more holistic than thou. The result is a fast-talking, all-inclusive style that announces to laymen and rival alike: "My big picture is bigger than your big picture...
...defeated for the prime ministership by Mugabe, and since then there has been a growing rift between the two nationalist leaders. Last February, Mugabe dismissed Nkomo from his Cabinet post as Minister Without Portfolio for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. Despite Nkomo's denials, Mugabe suspects his rival of having masterminded a series of outbreaks of violence and sabotage and even an assault last month on the residences of Mugabe and Supplies Minister Enos Nkala...
...legal, nine casinos have opened on the four-mile-long Boardwalk, and two more are on the way. Located within 300 miles of 50 million people, and an easy drive from New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore, Atlantic City draws a less sophisticated crowd than its more cosmopolitan Western rival. Many people come to Atlantic City for only a few hours, in fact, changing clothes in their cars before the evening's show. Others arrive by bus; some 200,000 buses disgorged passengers in the city last year...