Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yntema dropped down to 11th in the consolation finals last night, but he lowered his own Harvard record to 50.57 in the process. His time was just one hundredth of a second slower than that of rival Bob Meade of Cornell, who beat Yntema in the event at the Easterns...
...former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera whose laser-beam wit has terrorized and delighted the music world, seems to have decided that he can take the knocks onstage as well as give them off. After signing up to play three performances for the Met's youthful rival, the New York City Opera, Bing explained how he was chosen for a nonsinging, nonspeaking role in a new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord: "Julius Rudel [the director] called me and said, 'In the opera, there is an old lord who is elegant, arrogant...
...dollars," says a monetary official in Canada, where local currency has floated against the U.S. dollar for nearly three years without major problems. "Under a float, a speculator has to gamble against other speculators. This helps settle the value of the dollar at a point somewhere near what rival speculators feel is about the right price." Besides, businessmen in recent years have learned to deal much more easily on the "forward exchange market" -where buyers and sellers of currency agree in advance on the rate to be used in a given transaction. Says David Grove, a member of TIME...
...qualifying first in one event, second in two, and fourth and fifth in the other two, Harvard began the evening finals auspiciously. Rich Baughman, seeded fifth in the last and usually decisive heat of the 1650-yd. freestyle, started slowly but gathered momentum to pass faltering Ralph Baric of rival North Carolina State and eventually, with 50 yards to go, Tom Schmidt of South Carolina, to finish a surprising second behind defending champion Curtis Haydon of Princeton...
...except perhaps a few of the rival generals, seriously expects that those weapons will ever be fired or those troops committed to battle. In fact, most Europeans regard the paperkrieg as a bit of a charade...