Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, sometimes two rival coalitions of six students each form and offer the pivotal 13th member a higher share of the money to sign their contract. One student charged a $16 "negotiation fee" to sign a contract, leaving the other six members with only $9 each...
...Republican race reflects the insights of two reporters who have been coattailing the party's leading contenders for the past nine weeks: Barrett, our man on Ronald Reagan's plane, and Washington Correspondent Douglas Brew, who has followed the fortunes of Reagan's chief rival, George Bush...
...just beginning. Some 60 of the eventual 1,994 delegates to the Detroit convention have so far been chosen; Reagan and Bush are tied with 22 each. During the next two weeks, Reagan has a chance to increase his lead and even possibly to knock one or two rivals out of contention?especially Connally, if he runs poorly in South Carolina, where he is staging a $1 million blitz. On the other hand, Bush has an opportunity to solidify his standing as Reagan's chief rival, and he would not have to win in the Southern primaries...
Those slogans, chanted by Red Guards as they paraded down the streets of Peking in 1967, signaled the downfall of China's pragmatic chief of state Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-ch'i); Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who regarded Liu as a rival for power, had deemed him to be the nation's chief enemy. Last week the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting secretly in Peking, reversed Mao's verdict and effectively rewrote the past 13 years of Chinese history...
Under the fearsome Doge Enrico Dandolo, the armada sailed and, by April 1204, the greatest city in the world lay prostrate; in an act of unparalleled treachery, the most powerful Roman Catholic state in Italy had destroyed its religious rival, the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Tremendous booty was brought back from Constantinople to Venice. So thorough was the stripping that the soldiers even destroyed icons to get their gold leaf; 200 years later, when the last of the Byzantine emperors made a pathetic state visit to Venice, a shrewd onlooker noticed that the jewels in his crown were...