Word: rivaled
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Barrios, an openly gay Latino Democrat, beat his Republican rival Ronald W. Potvin in a landslide on Nov. 3 with 88 percent of the vote. He won the September primary with 48.7 percent of the vote, more than 20 percentage points higher than his closest rival and almost 30 points higher than incumbent Alvin E. Thompson...
Deacon also had unprecedented cooperation in his search for the best performances. While Philips led the project, 24 other record companies contributed music to the edition. In fact, EMI, a fierce rival of Philips in the classical market, is represented on 55 of the 200 discs, while tracks from Philips feature on only 38. "The collection was so comprehensive and definitive that no label wanted its artists to be left out," says Chris Roberts, president of Polygram Classics, which owns Deutsche Grammophon...
Hoffa's International Brotherhood of Teamsters would not only rival the power of the U.A.W., it would also become known as America's most corrupt union. That the two men, almost polar opposites, should have existed in the same city at the same time is not just remarkable. Their differences would define the deepest schism in American labor, splitting the movement into two irreconcilable camps, one progressive and idealistic, the other conservative and avaricious...
...great inventor Thomas Alva Edison. At the turn of the century Edison had blessed Ford's pursuit of an efficient, gas-powered car during a chance meeting at Detroit's Edison Illuminating Co., where Ford was chief engineer. (Ford had already worked for the company of Edison's fierce rival, George Westinghouse...
...sheer reclusiveness, Hughes (Howard, not Brian G.) had a worthy rival in candymaker Forrest Mars Sr. Virtually every detail of Mars' life--including his birthday--is kept a closely guarded corporate secret within Mars Inc., a secretive company. He has reportedly given but one interview in his entire career and that to a candy-industry trade paper in 1966. Yet even Mars' and Hughes' penchant for anonymity pales before that of Basil Zaharoff (1849-1936), a munitions king aptly called the "Mystery Man of Europe." Zaharoff systematically stole or destroyed all records of his youth and early manhood, making snooping...