Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sales end next week: before they do, discounts could run to 80%. Then what is left will be auctioned off to other retailers and trade merchandisers. Grant has already vacated its 53-story Manhattan headquarters building. By mid-April, the 70-year-old Grant, once a thundering rival to F.W. Woolworth and S.S. Kresge, could well be no more...
...American look in 1975, you'd study Calvin Klein." His clothes will earn $40 million at retail this year; his licensing agreements, covering everything from furs to sheets, took in $12 million in 1975. "Some people take their cue from Jackie O," he remarks, without naming Rival Halston. "I am more interested in the young American woman, and I watch her." But he does not lack for celebrated clients. Among them: Elizabeth Ashley, Mrs. William Buckley, Faye Dunaway, Alexis Smith, Mica Ertegun and Ethel Kennedy...
Geographical mysteries were thus solved, but the region's weakened and debased societies and its fever-ridden travelers remained baffling to each other. In 1854 a German Lutheran explorer named Heinrich Earth was detained in Timbuctoo for eight months before rival political factions agreed to release him. An Arab officer in favor of Earth's execution spoke disapprovingly of Christians: "They sit like women in the bottom of their steamboats and do nothing but eat raw eggs...
...exciting nights of college hockey in recent memory, the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) hockey tournament began last night. As a result of two upsets and two near-upsets, Harvard drew Boston University as a semifinal opponent on Friday night and Brown is scheduled to face-off against Ivy rival Cornell...
...state, gave him impressive victories almost everywhere: in Lawrence, with a long-time depressed textile and shoe industry, Jackson beat his nearest competitor, Carter, by 3-2; in Springfield, he topped Wallace by the same margin; and Worcester provided Scoop with a nearly 3-1 lead over his nearest rival...