Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varsity stickmen ended a lacrosse win drought yesterday on home turf with a deluge of points rained on hapless crosstown rival MIT, while the freshman edition also put in its oar, with a come-from-behind triumph over visiting Andover...
...leftover campaign funds might as well be used "to take the Washington Post down a notch. Nixon was wild, shouting and hollering that 'we can't have it and we're going to stop it [the leaks]. I don't care how much it costs.' " Not long afterward rival Florida broadcasting companies filed a challenge through the Federal Communications Commission to the Post's ownership of two Florida television stations. The Post is still fighting to retain its licenses...
...gift for inspirational leadership. Partly as a result, his prediction has a hollow ring; the U.F.W.A. is fighting now to stay alive. Membership, which totaled 50,000 in California alone in 1971, is down to 10,000. Faced with the certainty that still more growers will defect to the rival International Brotherhood of Teamsters when their contracts with the farm workers' union expire this spring, Chavez last week intensified the latest nationwide boycott of non-U.F.W.A. California table grapes that began last year. The boycott also extends to non-U.F.W.A. iceberg lettuce...
Although Stowell said last week that the Tigers are a strong running group and "are pretty solid in the field," the Crimson should spend most of its time setting new records against this traditional Jersey rival...
...balance of power there are both strong and weak teams, and, naturally, the weaker ones must make concessions. San Diego and Texas agreed to give up about three-quarters of their games to rival teams. This provision of the balance system explains exactly how some teams can lose so many games and still remain in the bipolar alliance system of the American and National Leagues...