Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wriston, which is involved in mortgage banking, leasing and financial consulting, and runs 148 consumer-loan offices in 19 states through its Nationwide Financial Services Corp.) During the 1970s, Citibank has moved from third to second largest bank in the U.S. in terms of assets, elbowing past its traditional rival Chase. There are persistent rumors that some Chase directors are unhappy and would not be sorry to see Chairman Rockefeller leave-though there is no indication that he will. Wriston's reputation, in contrast, continues to grow even among bankers who are made nervous by his expansion-mindedness...
...pound class, Jim McGrath spurted to a quick 4-0 lead, but his sailor rival outlasted him for a 7-4 decision...
Korda dispenses breezy bits of office one-upmanship (jam a visitor's chair into a small space to make him feel powerless, speak softly to an elderly rival -it may make him think he is going deaf). Ringer's book is a heady parable of the worm (himself) who turned predator and earned a spectacular $849,901 in a single year of real estate wheeling and dealing. Despite the differences in style, the message is the same: death will come soon; meanwhile, there is nothing left to believe in but success and power in a cruel world...
Died. John Aloysius Costello, 84, twice Prime Minister of Ireland and former leader of the conservative Fine Gael party; of cancer; in Dublin. After his surprise victory in 1948 over his longtime rival, Fianna Fail Leader Eamon de Valera, Costello quipped, "I feel rotten. Last Saturday I was a free man." But he energetically pursued his task, breaking Ireland's final constitutional link to Britain with the repeal of the External Relations Act. Costello lost the prime ministership to De Valera in 1951, won it back in 1954, lost it again in 1957 and quit politics...
Brayton won't mention names, and his bitterness never singles out one rival or one front office villain. Part of this is because he respects some of the pitchers he played with and lived with who are on the brink of the big time, like Don Aase and Rick Jones, who are both "outstanding" and deserving. He knows that players who got big stipends when they signed represent an "investment" and thus have a better chance. (Brayton himself was no bonus baby.) He might drop hints about Pete Broberg, the big Dartmouth pitcher who made the majors around the time...