Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese, who opened the way to last week's summit, worry that that delicate balance could be upset by the Soviets. On the one hand, Moscow has 50 divisions poised on the Chinese border; on the other, it is courting the favors of China's historic Asian rival, Japan, with the possibility of negotiating a favorable Russo-Japanese peace treaty and participating in a vast program to develop natural-gas deposits in Siberia...
...bitter struggle between the rival National and American basketball associations has triggered a series of increasingly complicated lawsuits. But none of the earlier legal hassles compares in complexity to the bizarre case of Julius Winfield Erving Jr., a gifted 6-ft. 7-in., 22-year-old forward whose clinical dissection of opposing defenses supports his self-styled title...
...with a correspondingly more attenuated sensibility, represents the introspective adolescent. Like Eve, who persists in pestering God about why they can't eat the apples. Cain asks too many questions. Miller's creation of an intelligent Cain helps explain his fate: in Biblical morality, those who seek to rival God by attaining knowledge become the sinners...
...turned out, neither had any more cause to worry than CBS. Besides knocking some CBS entries, Sheehan has praised some of the rival programs. He raved about ABC's Julie Andrews Hour and saluted NBC Reports. To even things up, he said that ABC'S new series, The Rookies, was a "dumb daydream" and called NBC's first Search episode, starring Hugh O'Brian, a "kind of plastic epitome of wasteland television: you want to ask for your hour back when it's over." With all the knocks, CBS of course has had its share...
...Rival drug dealers are not the only victims. On one occasion last June, gunmen crept into a customs official's home and asked his small daughter to identify her father. She did-and watched in horror as he was shot 15 times...