Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trailing arch-rival City College of New York through the first three rounds of play, the Crimson pawn-pushers swept the fourth-round games. Harvard finished with 14 1/2 points, one point ahead of CCNY...
...prices since the mid-1960s, when the cost of running the socialized National Health Service began getting out of hand. Among other things, the Department of Health and Social Security has urged doctors to prescribe drugs by their generic rather than their brand names, and the government has granted rival drug companies the right to copy patented drugs such as Librium and Valium if they pay a royalty to the developing firm. The remedies have had some effect: after Berk Pharmaceuticals Ltd. came out with a copy of Valium called Atensine in 1971, Roche's British subsidiary...
...intrigues. Burr, the sardonic wit, constantly sees through labels like Republican and Federalist to such common denominators as hunger for glory, power and the preservation of privilege. He talks of Washington's "eerie incompetence" as a military leader, while admiring the man's "fine talent for defeating rival generals in the Congress." Burr libels Hamilton as having been a British agent during the Adams Administration; he mocks him for reading women's novels wrapped in the Anti Jacobin Review...
...Tulsa's federal court last week could make much sense of the proceedings. Even Presiding Judge A. Sherman Christensen seemed more than a little confused. Less than a month after finding International Business Machines Corp. in violation of antitrust statutes and ordering it to pay its struggling rival, Telex Corp., a record $352.5 million in damages (TIME, Oct. 1), Christensen developed second thoughts and sent the whole complex legal wrangle almost back to Square 1. Before the week was over, he changed course again and announced that he might be able soon to make a conclusion on the case...
...Telex's potential business came from marketing disc drives and other "peripheral" computer components based on secret IBM designs. In his earlier finding that Telex had gained the designs by hiring away IBM employees, he had ordered Telex to pay $21.9 million in damages to its giant rival. Last week he further granted IBM's motion for a reduction-by an as yet undetermined amount-of the $352.5 million judgment against...