Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Florez faces some strong rivals, including Lieut. Colonel Rubén Dario Paredes, the deputy chief of staff and a moderate who once served as Torrijos' Agriculture Minister. Another potential rival for Florez: Lieut. Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, Torrijos' cousin, who is considered to be a liberal...
...angry Tin began tearing down his rival's posters. Enraged, Thongyu shouted at Tin. The two men then agreed to settle the matter with a fistfight and departed in clattering bottle trucks for a field near by. On the way, though, Tin pulled his truck alongside Thongyu's and, according to witnesses, blasted him with a shotgun. Thongyu was left dead at his wheel; Tin disappeared...
Last week the large New York auction houses released figures for the 1980-81 sales season, which ends in August, showing a leveling off of once spectacular growth. Christie's reported sales of $130 million, a rise of 15% as compared with 242% last year. At rival Sotheby Parke Bernet, sales were up 20%, to $300 million, less than one-third last year's rate of 66%. "The market is much more selective now," explains Elizabeth Shaw, vice president of Christie's. "People are not just buying because they have nothing else to do with their money...
...leading Wall Street brokerage house, has already raised more than $165 million from investors for Public Storage Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., the nation's largest miniwarehouse chain. Public Storage operates 165 separate warehouses, located mostly in the Sunbelt. Shearson Loeb Rhoades is helping to finance the growth of rival Colonial Storage Group of Odessa, Texas, which was founded in 1969 and now has 81 facilities in operation. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has also entered the field, with a $15 million miniwarehouse investment program for pension funds...
Months ago, as Brokaw approached the renewal date of his contract, he began giving his NBC bosses the jitters by holding earnest discussions with rival networks CBS and ABC. NBC, lagging in third place in the superheated evening-news ratings race, could ill afford to lose an asset like Brokaw. Just how far the network was willing to go to keep him became clear with last week's announcement that Brokaw will take over John Chancellor's anchor slot on NBC's Nightly News. The precedent-shattering deal was reportedly for as much as $15 million...