Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commission's report criticized the "excessive force" used by the raiding police, the "attitude of authoritarianism" which the Columbia administration displayed and which "invited distrust," the "opposition between the administration and the faculty as rival bodies," and the "disruptive tactics" of the students who occupied five Columbia buildings...
...president and principal owner of the real estate firm of Helmsley-Spear Inc., he manages properties worth $1.5 billion by his own estimate. He also controls two rival Manhattan realty companies and personally shares in the ownership of dozens of profitable buildings, many of them operated by his own firms. Among his holdings: the Empire State Building, still the world's tallest, two high-rent Beverly Hills apartments, Brooklyn's industrial Bush Terminal and Manhattan's St. Moritz and Carlton House hotels...
Because the Fulbright awards are not announced until May, however, as many as half of the Harvard winners, having made other plans or accepted rival awards, annually turn them down. Last year the severity of the new draft laws further cut into the number of Harvard students accepting Fulbrights...
...payload to make the plane profitable, however, and will enable the craft to achieve the designed range. The new version, employing the familiar fixed-wing concept, should also take less time to build. That is particularly important, since the slower (1,550 m.p.h.), delta-wing Anglo-French Concorde, a rival SST entry, is scheduled to make its first test flight this fall and start commercial service in mid-1971, five years earlier than the B-2707. Boeing's best hope at this stage is that if no more serious kinks develop, it may be able to accelerate its timetable...
Tibet's slim hope for survival resides in the chaos that has overtaken Mao's Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards have split into rival factions and are warring among themselves and with the military, though last week Peking claimed that the Maoists were in full control of all China's provinces, including Tibet. Earlier, the longtime army commander in Tibet was replaced, and battles among the Chinese occupiers were reported to be raging sporadically in Lhasa. Essential services, including transportation, communications and food shipments, have broken down. Taking advantage of the turmoil, Tibetans are issuing anti-Chinese...