Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...India's major arms suppliers and that India also buys military aircraft from Britain, missiles from France and antitank weapons from the U.S. Mrs. Gandhi's defenders also note that her most significant diplomatic move has been to seek normal relations with Moscow's ideological rival, Peking...
This month the New York Times, with a beefed-up business section of its own, is scheduled to launch a national edition. The Times will find its Manhattan rival dug in and ready to slug it out. The Journal has twelve regional printing plants, seven of which can send or receive ready-to-print pages by satellite. About 95% of subscribers get same-day delivery. The fourfold rise in U.S. postal rates during the 1970s convinced the Journal that it should begin delivering its own papers; this faster service reached 16% of subscribers last year and is expected to cover...
...legal framework for this issue began to take its modern form in 1953. New York Giants Catcher Wes Westrum had signed contracts giving two rival bubble-gum firms exclusive rights to put him on their baseball cards. The companies took their fight to court, where a federal judge recognized the "right of publicity," entitling celebrities to a cut of the profits rung up by merchandise bearing their likenesses...
Biochemist Ronald Cape, chairman of Berkeley's Cetus Corp., a rival firm, sees patents as increasing the "free flow of ideas." More companies and investors are sure to plunge into the expensive business with less fear of having ideas stolen, or at least with an assurance of legal recourse if they are. But others fear that just the opposite will happen: that scientists will be cautious about sharing information, long an essential part of the scientific process. Warns M.I.T.'s Jonathan A. King, a molecular biologist: "Now you have the prospect of keeping a strain [of bacteria...
...placed in all four of his events, including third-place finishes in the 1500-and 800-meter races behind world-class swimmers Mike Bruner and Djan Madruga. "And," the voice added excitedly, "he beat lifelong rival Brian Goodell in both distance events and Hackett's coach, Joe Bernal said he hadn't seen Bobby looks so strong coming home in the 1500 since the 1976 Olympics when Hackett swam to a silver medal...