Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After all, Harvard, already the largest land-owner in Cambridge (and all of the land was tax exempt) stood a lot to lose from damaging town-gown relationships. As early as the nineteenth century rival Cantabrigians were wise to Harvard's moves as this wary campaign plea indicates: "Will you permit the CLIQUE of Harvard University and OLD CAMBRIDGE after their attempts to be set off from the town, to elect all the officers of the city from their own section, and RULE with aristocratic sway...
...avail. Khashoggi's offer met immediate opposition. Local Jewish merchants briefly-but pointedly-considered boycotting the bank. A few depositors huffily shifted their accounts to rival banks. Fairly typically, a liquor-store owner said: "It worries me that with all those petrodollars, the Arabs will come...
Teng's most formidable rival appears to be Politburo Member Chang Chun-chiao, 64. Not only has Chang just been made Second Vice Premier, but he was also given the symbolically important task of presenting the new constitution to the congress...
...Crimson's ECAC rival, Boston University, which is breathing down Harvard's neck in the league with a 11-1-0 slate, received 64 votes in the poll, for fifth place. Other Eastern foes New Hampshire and Providence are ninth and tenth respectively in the nation...
...government's current strategy is to undercut the Baptist underground by building up the All-Union Council and its support in the West; some concessions have been granted the council, and its membership is up. But prospects are bleak for the rival movement. Thousands of Initsiativniki have been forced back into the All-Union Council or outside of all organized religion. For Vins himself, the future almost certainly holds a sentence of up to ten years, since acquittal in political cases is virtually unknown. Vins' wife and four children fear that given his shaky health, he will follow...