Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undetermined causes; in a state prison in Draper, Utah. LeBaron, who served twelve months in a Mexican jail in connection with the 1972 slaying of his brother Joel, was sentenced last year to life imprisonment for ordering the murder of the head of a rival polygamous sect in Utah. LeBaron was also convicted last year of plotting to kill another brother, Verlan, who died last week on the same day as Ervil in an auto accident in Mexico City...
...Kremlin to discuss disarmament with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt as a possible replacement for his rival and successor, Helmut Schmidt, should the growing opposition from the Social Democratic Party's pacifist left wing force Schmidt's resignation...
...certain sartorial conservatism has long applied. This summer, though, in the city of Munich, a terrible uproar arose as crowds of young nudists began nonchalantly strolling alongside fully clothed pedestrians in the famous 600-acre Englische Garten. The young strippers quickly became a major tourist attraction, even threatening to rival the rosy Rubens nudes in the city's Alte Pinakothek. But the burghers of Munich were not amused...
Competitors viewed IBM's new product and marketing strategy with both interest and some relief. IBM will be a tough rival, but the smaller firms should be able to keep a good part of the market. Said Ulric Weil, a computer-company watcher for Wall Street's Morgan Stanley: "I am sure Apple feared something much more formidable." Said Apple President A.C. Markkula: "We don't see anything out of the ordinary. There are no major technological breakthroughs and there isn't any obvious competitive edge...
...neither flinched from it nor fudged it. And by the mere fact of painting only the essential-either because of an absence of "taste' or through an innate instinct for the essential-he achieved a kind of authenticity that in retrospect none of his more celebrated colleagues could rival...