Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with it and became too tiring to handle. A hippie backlash. It seemed like the only thing to do was tank up and join the fray. Bronson was surely one of the heavies: his chunk figure was the perfect vehicle for the fascist, amoral tactics he used to smash rival crooks, fight mercenary struggles, snare women by ignoring them. It wasn't that you couldn't tell what was going on inside his head-you couldn't even tell whether that concrete block on his shoulders was a head, and you began to not care. The Mechanic became a mechanism...
...best hope for a solution lies with the 20-member "National Dialogue Committee" hastily put together by Premier Rashid Karami (TIME, Oct. 20). Yet because the committee is composed of representatives of most of Lebanon's rival religious and political factions, it is possible that-as the Phalangist daily al-Amal put it last week-"the Dialogue Committee's discussions may turn into 'a dialogue of the deaf...
...mind that its title is Let's Do It Again. The whole caper is recycled. Poitier and Cosby are hauled back to New Orleans by Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and his boys, who feel they got bilked and want to work the same ploy on a rival gambler named Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Now this is not a movie with jokes to spare. By the time Poitier and Cosby have rerun their plot, the meager supply has been totally exhausted. So has the audience...
...major irritation for Post executives is that lost advertising has been fattening the rival Star. The financially troubled Star can certainly use the extra revenue, but Graham and New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger have made personal appeals to Star Publisher Joe L. Allbritton to stand together against the unions. (In its own city, the Times announced that it would close in sympathy if its prime competitor, the News, is hit this week by a strike of deliverers, and the News said it would shut down if Times' deliverers struck first...
...year WEO ("Where Economy Originates") drive was a disastrous blunder. The chain went all out to undercut competitors' prices at the expense of quality; brand-name goods became scarce on the shelves, and many stores were allowed to become dirty. Result: customers abandoned A. & P. in droves for rival chains...