Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commuters travel from suburban home to suburban job. (About 25% both live and work in the city, and 7% reverse-commute from the city to the suburbs.) As many suburbanites know, that pattern has produced traffic snarls, at intersections dozens of miles outside the core city, that rival anything encountered on downtown streets. Says Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II: "Subways are fine for getting downtown and back, but most people don't travel downtown and back any more. They travel all over the place. And you can't build subways all over the place...
...time 4.2 million Venezuelans had voted, most of the issues had given way to a personality contest in an American-style election campaign that officially lasted almost two years and cost the country a minimum of $30 million −nearly $7 a vote. Perez and his closest rival, Lorenzo Fernandez of the ruling COPEI (Social Christian party), who won about 37% of the vote, both relied heavily on U.S. consulting firms to build their images...
Late last month, Tanaka appointed Takeo Fukuda, his old rival for the Liberal Democratic leadership, to head the powerful finance ministry. Fukuda, an apostle of fiscal orthodoxy, has so far done little to check the feeling of governmental drift. Although his appointment was widely praised by business leaders, it has failed to quell intraparty squabbling. "All they seem to care about is how it will affect the Upper House elections in July," said one Western diplomat last week...
...Kneib and Kevin Washington. They also have the fortune of playing in the Palestra. Everyone within a 200-mile radius of Philly knows that the only time a Big Five team (Temple, Villanova, LaSalle, St. Joseph's and Penn) drops one in the Palestra, it's only to a rival Philadelphia team...
...recognized as an "urban" spokesman, but he has accelerated the decay of Manhattan by starving New York City for funds. This he did partly to make potential political rival John Lindsay look...