Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe lightweights coasted to a three-length victory yesterday when its closest rival, Brown, caught a crab and inadvertently stopped 100 yards from the finish line...
Though it remained essentially a propaganda war, the quarrel between those traditional rival powers of the Middle East, Iran and Iraq, threatened last week to turn into open warfare. Following several days of mounting tensions, sporadic clashes broke out across the 700-mile Iranian-Iraqi border. Then, to the momentary alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab...
...market economies are doing so poorly, are the centrally directed command economies doing any better? No. Capitalism's primary rival, Communism, is afflicted by most of the same ailments, and more. Communist countries are encountering far more difficulty than the West in adapting to the age of economic anxiety. After substantial gains from low bases during the 1950s and early 1960s, progress in Communist economies has sharply slowed in recent years. Technology, innovation and productivity have fallen further behind most Western countries. Economic growth in the Soviet Union last year was about 2%, the lowest since the 1930s...
...final singles slot performance by Kristin Mertz evened the match at three victories. Mertz stung her rival in two quick sets...
Gradually, with the help of Marie St. Jacques, a Canadian economist whom he abducts and then saves from a brutal rape, Bourne-Cain learns that he is a tender, brave man as well. But Carlos is determined to destroy his reputed rival. So are Cain's former masters in the Washington intelligence establishment, who had originally set him up to trap Carlos and are now persuaded that he has turned. Bourne's deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet...