Word: rivaled
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With the national championship, Dooley and his Bulldogs step out of the shadow of Southeastern Conference Rival Alabama and its fabled coach, Bear Bryant. Dooley's 17-year tenure at Georgia is the fourth longest of active college coaches, and his record of 129 wins, 56 losses and six ties is eighth best in the nation. At 48, he has won four S.E.C. titles, an impressive mark in a conference where Bryant keeps shop. Yet Dooley is not haunted by his illustrious rival. "My very first game as a 31-year-old college coach...
...Ryder decided to start up another firm to rival his own. Using $5 million of his own money and a fleet of trucks assembled on credit from Ford, Chrysler and Fruehauf, he launched Jartran (an acronym for James A. Ryder Transportation) in Coral Gables, Fla., under the noses of his former colleagues...
This year his grapplers began their schedule in fine style as they defeated crosstown rival Boston University by a single point. In that same triangular match, they trounced Plymouth State and since then have beaten four other opponents by healthy margins...
...Block became director o the Illinois department of agriculture, a post in which he earned high marks even from rival Democrats. One of his proudest accomplishments was improving the efficiency of the Illinois State Fair which indicates the vast jump that he must make from the 806-employee state agency he headed to the U.S.D.A., with its 141,000 employees and far-flung operations involving issues such as international grain sales and the role of farm products in diplomacy. On these last matters, Block will take office with firm beliefs. He argues that food is America's greatest diplomatic...
Amadeus. Was Mozart poisoned by a rival? Britain's Peter Shaffer draws a cunning eternal triangle with God at the apex, music in the air and Byzantine intrigue everywhere. There are sumptuous performances by Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, Jane Seymour and Nicholas Kepros...