Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some control over more than half of South Korea's 600,000-man armed forces. But such authority can amount to very little. General Chun himself flagrantly ignored a Korean-American agreement on prior consultation last December, when he ordered reserve units to help him arrest some 40 rival officers. More cooperatively, the Seoul government last week asked General John Wickham Jr., U.S. commander of the joint forces, to release some Korean units under his command for "crowd control and internal security." He obliged...
...teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried to start a rival atheist organization...
...country, particularly on the West Coast, are rushing to clone her. Marr, now at Seattle's KVI, has hired Jennifer James, a cultural anthropologist. Station KXRX in San Jose has taken on Psychologist Thomas Tutko, while San Francisco's KSFO signed Psychologist Bonnie Ring. Bay Area Rival KGO hopes to top that by finding a male and a female psychologist to do a show together. Says a KGO spokeswoman: "Everyone in the industry saw what Toni Grant did to the ratings, and now everybody wants to copy her. She grows on you." Grant's own station...
...happy party at Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant, an occasion for champagne and congratulatory speeches. The top brass of CBS, led by Founder and Chairman William Paley, 79, had gathered to cheer the TV net work's narrow victory over rival ABC and its return to the top of the prime-time ratings chart in the just concluded season...
...carat gold ring if the money is used toward the purchase of a $95 Lustrium number. But if civilians are switching to stainless-steel bands, West Point cadets are not trading in their tradition. And at more than $300 apiece this year, their rings rival Montezuma...