Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giscard d'Estaing, the Common Market is moving rapidly and seriously toward a new monetary scheme that would stabilize currencies of the nine member nations and thus enhance trade among them. It would also distance members from the influence of the weakening dollar and create a rival reserve currency in the world...
...candidates for the country's presidency. The current favorite is the candidate least beloved by the Ecuadorian military: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 37, leader of the populist Concentration of Popular Forces party (CFP). Roldós received 31% of the 1,408,316 votes cast. His closest rival in a six-candidate field was Sixto Duran Ballén, 57, the army's favorite, with 23%. The runoff election, expected in the fall, promises to be a close one, but the real wonder is that Roldós has been allowed to campaign...
...Steptoe and Edwards, the Browns' baby, apparently normal and so near birth, was a long-sought goal: in scores of previous transfers of externally fertilized eggs, a successful, full-term pregnancy had never been achieved. To many other doctors, including rival researchers, the feat was a stunning achievement...
...work. When he proved unwilling or unable to document his claims, Bevis was so roundly denounced that he soon vowed to give up all such research. To this day, no one really knows whether Bevis was making phony claims or was a victim of the furious scientific competition between rival fertility researchers. In any case, the Bevis case sharply increased public concern and brought vociferous right-to-life advocates into the fray. They equated the fertilization experiments?and the frequent destruction of apparently live embryos in the lab?with outright abortions of far more developed embryos and fetuses in women...
...that did not sit well with the Mail's principal tabloid rival in Britain, the Express, which had dropped out of the bidding at $190,000. Express reporters claim they had learned that the yet unidentified father was driving three hours each way to visit his wife. So they staked out the hospital parking lot, jotted down license numbers of male motorists who looked as if they might be expectant fathers and traced them through Britain's motor licensing bureau. How? "By subterfuge, even bribery!" speculated an angry civil servant. The Express soon narrowed the search to Brown...