Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the 1,207 delegates at the Democratic state convention in Hartford nominated Grasso as the party's candidate for governor. She has been the leading contender in a relatively issueless race since well before she announced her candidacy last January. Two weeks ago her major rival, State Attorney General Robert Killian, gave up what looked like an increasingly hopeless fight against her. He agreed to join the ticket as nominee for lieutenant governor...
Many yachtsmen have been skeptical about the boat ever since her unusual design became known. "I hope she does not work," said one rival designer, "or I will have to forget everything I ever learned." Even Mariner's supporters had fears. Skipper Ted Turner thought the boat "did not look right" when he first saw her. M.I.T. Hydro-dynamicist Jerome Milgram, who did preliminary consulting for Chance, had warned in a 1972 article that promising test-tank readings might not be reliable...
...difficult to get to the palace by political means; the usual way is by money or guns." The continent has been much dominated by the military. Youth counts for little. When the late Juan Perón won the presidency of Argentina last fall he was 77, and his closest rival was 69. The very frequency of military coups makes party politics an unattractive career. The best of the young either go into private business or the law, or they join leftist guerrilla movements...
...opposition parties are understandably angry over the heavy spending of the L.D.P. under Tanaka's control. The leaders of other L.D.P. factions-including Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, Tanaka's most powerful rival-are angry too. They fear that, by controlling the purse strings, Tanaka is strengthening his support within the party at their expense. They are well aware that the huge campaign fund has helped Tanaka to field 29 candidates from his own faction of the party-as opposed to only 16 from Fukuda's wing...
STRATFORD, Conn.--In all literature there exists no more famous, more popular or more influential a love story than Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. And if one extends the field to music, only Wagner's Tristan and Isolde can rival...