Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to talk about divine retribution. But first, a little background information about my youth in Birmingham, Ala. When I was a sophomore at Mountain Brook High School (they name everything after Nature down there--the cross town rival was Fairfield, then there was Shade Valley--you get the picture), this classmate of mine named Charlie M. Christmas (yes, the M does indeed stand for Merry) became the local legend. Charlie moved to Birmingham at the beginning of tenth grade from what all my classmates called a hick town. Now the usual reaction would have been to ostracize old Charlie...
...Arab, anti-Western sentiments. Masmoudi advocated unification with Libya, and most likely saw it as a means of improving his own position in the Tunisian power struggle. At week's end, evidence of political difficulties within Tunisia mounted as soldiers occupied key Tunis intersections. Premier Hedi Nouira, a rival of Masmoudi's and a foe of unification, described the troop movements as a "precaution." They were probably meant to discourage Tunisian youth, many of whom admire Gaddafi, from taking to the streets to demonstrate in favor of the merger with Libya...
...wiser. "We hope she's happier than she was here," said Hughes Rudd, Sally's co-anchor on the CBS Morning News. Just five months after the network had hired her away from the Washington Post to make trouble for Barbara Walters of NBC's rival Today, Quinn quit. The victim of a premature publicity buildup and her own inexperience, Sally had also an unfortunate style: she picked over the news as if she could not decide which fork to use. She will join the New York Times's Washington bureau in March. Miss Quinn...
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY Isfahan was more than a city--it was a dream. Travellers marvelled at its mosques and bazaars, which nothing in Europe could rival, and many a drafty northern castle was adorned with the glowing carpets for which Isfahan was renowned. Shah Abbus and The of Isfahan, at the Fogg until February 24, recreates the magic of the fabled Persian city with a rich and varied collection of beautiful objects from tomb covers to archer's rings...
...wields the kind of clout over its home market that American admen can only dream about. The agency places about a quarter of all the print ads in Japan and four out of every five rich prime-time TV commercials. Of its 5,000 or so competitors, the closest rival is the Hakuhodo agency, which has billings of less than $3,000,000. One reason for Dentsu's preeminence: because of its money, drive and just plain bigness, it can buy up prime print space and broadcast time months in advance, leaving only crumbs for its competitors...