Word: rivalled
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...Imported talent helped Grameen rival Acción, a big player in Latin American microfinance, establish a presence in the U.S. in the early 1990s. And yet even after years of making loans to small and upstart businesses, Acción still isn't profitable - an example of the challenge Grameen faces if it thinks it won't have to depend on donations for funding...
...swimming and diving team (6-0, 4-0 Ivy) gave the rest of the league something to fear. The Crimson trounced the visiting Penn Quakers (3-3, 2-3) 213-85 this past Saturday.Harvard won 14 of the day’s 16 events, completely dominating its rival Quakers.“I think we did what we needed to get done,†said junior distance stand-out Alex Meyer, who placed first in the 400-yard IM. “When everyone’s pretty stressed out with exams and quite a workload, it?...
...Small businesses can build fan bases that rival any cult star's. Two of the best closed up over the holidays. Depression Modern, 29, was a mecca for collectors of Deco furniture and artifacts; each Saturday morning, dozens of the faithful would gather outside Michael Smith's Lower Manhattan store, ready to rush in and claim his latest treasures. (I could name two TIME movie critics, one in New York, one in L.A., whose homes are little museums of Depression Modern pieces.) When a leap in rent shuttered this SoHo landmark, Smith retreated to his other boutique, Adelaide...
...once exclusive slice of South Florida used to be known primarily as the Kennedys' winter playground and a retiree haven for wealthy Northeasterners. But ever since the chad-infused chaos of the 2000 presidential recount, the largest county (by land mass) east of the Mississippi River has begun to rival Miami as the Sunshine State's capital of corruption and political mischief. It had to endure the sexual scandals of two consecutive congressman, first disgraced Representative Mark Foley and then his successor, Tim Mahoney, who lost his re-election bid in November after admitting to having multiple extramarital affairs...
...Only two years earlier, McCarty had described her bitter rival on the county commission, Tony Masilotti, as a "bad apple in the bunch" after he resigned shortly before pleading guilty to honest services fraud. Her sudden fall is symptomatic of a culture of graft that has plagued Palm Beach over the years. As the county's population mushroomed to 1.3 million people, so did the egos and perceived invincibility of the county commission, a board with the power to dole out millions of dollars in taxpayer grants to tight-budgeted cities whose mayors and commissioners regularly sought their endorsement. While...