Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie screens evokes catcalls and gibes. Students brazenly parade donkeys labeled "King Hassan" through the streets. Charges abound of corruption in high places, authoritarianism and nepotism favoring an Arab elite in a predominantly Berber community. The military, which holds the only organized power in a country where factionalism among rival parties and labor unions has dissipated the political opposition, is demonstrably coup-happy. After the even bloodier attempt on his life last year, Hassan moved to initiate reforms. Obviously, he has not moved rapidly enough...
...have-nots-will eventually surface. In past elections Jews have threatened to vote what they perceived as their interests but have ended up voting what they regarded as their conscience. While Nixon will make inroads with the more conservative, lower-income groups, McGovern is expected to outdistance his rival with younger, better-educated Jews, who are hostile to Nixon because of the Viet...
...deliberately bombing the dikes of North Viet Nam? That was clearly the most perplexing question of the week about the war in Viet Nam, where the rival armies remained locked in a bitter, seesaw battle for Quang Tri city. The accusation was serious, since nearly 15 million peasants live in the Red River Delta, whose floodwaters are controlled by a centuries-old, 2,500-mile labyrinth of earthen dikes (TIME, July 31). In the virtual absence of uncontestable firsthand information, however, the shouting of partisans all but drowned out the testimony of witnesses...
...following a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A buxom woman with a gigantic voice, the St. Louis-born singer was the first fully American-trained soprano to play Isolde and the three Brünnhildes at the Met. Many critics considered her superior to her rival, Kirsten Flagstad. Independent and unstuffy, she was dropped by Met Manager Rudolf Bing for singing in nightclubs. She withdrew to care for her ailing husband and former business manager, William Bass...
...long ago, such head-to-head comparisons in TV commercials would have contravened advertising's most venerable taboo: never openly knock a competitor's product. Indeed, ads that named a rival product were long banned at the American Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System. The National Broadcasting Co. permitted the practice in recent years, but few advertisers dared use it. Admen who wanted to tout their clients' goods in a comparative way referred to the competition in tippy-toe "Brand X" allusions. Then in March, the Federal Trade Commission, as part of its drive to improve...