Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crew got off to its best start of the year, jumping past chief rival Boston University on the first five strokes. By the first ten, Radcliffe had opened a full length lead on the Terriers and cruised home to victory without a struggle. Radcliffe's final time was 3:31, about three lengths ahead...
...Texas, Governor Dolph Briscoe's landslide victory in the Democratic gubernatorial primary probably assures him of a second term and may have ended the political career of his rival, Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold. A multimillionaire rancher and banker, Briscoe, 52, ran on a bland, conservative record and a boast of having avoided new state taxes last year. He surprised even himself by rolling up 68% of the unusually light vote (less than one-fourth of those eligible) and swamping Farenthold, 47, a reform-minded liberal who is the national chairwoman of the Women's Political Caucus. Farenthold...
...were either outlawed or at least barred from sitting in the rubber-stamp National Assembly. Socialist Leader Mario Soares, 49, who returned in triumph from Paris four days after the coup, proclaimed: "We are ready to assume the highest responsibilities of office." Another former exile and Soares' principal rival on the left, Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal, 60, had no sooner unpacked his bags than he began negotiating with the junta for the job of Labor Minister. Because of the rigid discipline the Communists had been forced to exercise during their years as an outlawed underground movement, they have emerged...
...Stanford University senior who was recently accepted by two medical schools, tells of a friend who placed his samples from a qualitative analysis laboratory in an oven to incubate overnight; when he went to check them in the morning, they were gone-presumably stolen by a rival. Other students resort to "dry-labbing": faking the results of experiments on paper. Despite the possibility of stiff penalties for those who get caught, cheating in examinations has become widespread...
Amateur Philosopher. The key to the Flyers' fortunes, though, is Goal Tender Bernie Parent, who restricted opponents to an average of 1.89 goals per game this year. After nine years of floating between teams and leagues-he spent last year with the rival World Hockey Association-Parent, 29, has become the best goalie in the game. A protege of Jacques Plante, the former Montreal Canadien, Parent does more for the Flyers than fulfill the promise of the bumper sticker on his new Imperial: ONLY THE LORD SAVES MORE THAN BERNIE PARENT...