Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) appeared to be on the verge of some notable victories in what may very well be the turning point in the war. On the ground, it delivered a series of telling blows to one rival faction involved in the war, the U.S.-supported National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). Meanwhile, there was a strong chance that the M.P.L.A. might be recognized as the country's legitimate government by a majority of the 46 member states of the Organization of African Unity, which...
Lange said that continued intransigence will only mean that rival parties will be less able to control the communists when they finally do gain representation in the cabinet...
...fates that would challenge a classical god. Poor Elizabeth Stewart died a couple of days after her marriage on As the World Turns when she fell upstairs and ruptured her liver. On The Doctors, the sinister Dr. Allison killed himself in order to throw the blame on a successful rival. Later in the same show, an urbane psychiatrist, Dr. Morrison, drove his nurse to suicide so that she would not report his criminal behavior...
...shows themselves are usually taped only a week in advance. Says Falken-Smith: "If a rival show suddenly pulls a big rating, you've got to be able to counter it with a shift in plot of your...
Anyone who is both critical of Ford and indisputably conservative might be expected to feel a great deal of sympathy with his chief Republican rival, Ronald Reagan, but that is not the case with Will. He scoffs at the value of a Reagan challenge: "There's not a dime's worth of difference between them, really, in terms of what they believe." Asked about his description of their differences as "microscopic", Will smiles sardonically again. "That's an assumption," he remarks. "I'm assuming there's a microscope that could show a difference...