Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to kill somebody." In Hanford, Calif., a station owner who had closed at the President's call found that a competitor across the street was open on Sunday and doing a hopping business. So the patriot hauled out a pistol and shot up six of his rival's pumps...
...hopping up and down and muttering "Uhhmm . . . nature call." Further, it seems that the Mafia has taken matters of ecology straight to heart: corpses are deposited all neatly wrapped in plastic bags. Aside from these incidental social observations, the movie concerns Anthony Quinn, as a Mafia don, warring with rival factions over Angel Tompkins, an actress to whom all human emotions save narcissism seem alien. She represents the most unlikely cause for the outbreak of hostilities since the War of Jenkins...
...fiery visitor is called Kohoutek (after its discoverer, Czech Astronomer Luboš Kohoutek- pronounced Loo-bosh Ko-hoe-tek); it promises to rival and perhaps surpass in brightness Halley's comet, which last appeared in 1910 and will not be seen again until 1986. By the time Kohoutek emerges from its passage behind the sun early in January, its tail should be full grown, a glittering streamer extending across as much as a sixth of the evening sky. There is some chance that Kohoutek will not live up to all its billing - comets are notoriously unpredictable. Some split into...
...difficult to find the reason. Hockey has expanded faster than any other professional team sport-so fast that it is still in a state of shock. The N.H.L. has grown from six to 16 teams since 1967. The rival W.H.A. added another twelve. Staffing 22 new teams required increasing the number of pro skaters, more than 90% of whom are reared in Canada, from about 100 to more than 500. Finding so many first-class prospects in hockey's existing farm system proved impossible...
...Mitsubishi a little over a year ago. Harvard's Jerome Alan Cohen, who was teaching at Doshisha University in Kyoto, suggested that Japan's largest trading house might spare that amount to endow a chair at Harvard Law School, and Mitsubishi agreed. Not to be outdone, the rival Sumitomo group gave $2,000,000 to Yale in June; four months later, Mitsui promised $1,000,000 to M.I.T. (from which a Mitsui founder graduated...