Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang seem to suppress the last vestige of conscience. In New York City, members of a gang sat on either side of a man on the subway, stuck him with knives from both sides, robbed him and kept him propped up until they disembarked. To finish off rival mobs, gangs have invaded hospitals in The Bronx, and once were repelled from an operating room by a surgeon wielding a scalpel...
...somebody. In what is close to a war zone, ghetto residents often eat and sleep on the floor to avoid the stray bullets whizzing through their windows. Joe, 17, a former Crip who has gone straight because he is tired of "hustlin'," says he was always stalking a rival gang member or a potential robbery victim. "Whenever I was shootin' [had a gun], I had someone in mind. If I couldn't get him, I'd get his partner or a substitute." He regrets a murder for which he was never prosecuted. "I took someone...
Carrillo speculated that the Soviets might be trying to split the Spanish Communists and set up a rival party. If that was indeed Moscow's strategy, it would be risky. After 1968, when Carrillo blasted the Soviets for invading Czechoslovakia, Moscow tried to oust him by giving financial aid to a onetime general in the Spanish Civil War, Enrique Lister, who now lives in exile in France. The move flopped, and the Spanish party was subsequently purged of its Soviet sympathizers...
Faced with returns of thousands of unsold newsstand copies, Playboy has now cut back its circulation guarantee from 5.4 million copies a month, to 4.5 million-exactly the same as its upstart rival Penthouse. (Hustler and Playboy's naughtier younger brother Oui are the other two top sellers.) Since with age and success Playboy has become the most "conservative" of the sex magazines, some might argue that its newsstand decline only proves Gresham's law. But this morality play isn't all that simple. It has more to do with society's shifting sexual standards...
...narcissistic photographic preoccupation with Hefner's Playboy mansion, which must do untold damage to his assumed reputation for sophistication. Surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite Square. Hefner is in the business of selling fantasies; he has made the mistake of trying to live his. Enter Rival Guccione. who does not show his readers how he lives...