Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press secretary. He undertook to investigate the Eagleton rumors and he was the staff man principally responsible for the poorly worked-out welfare scheme that McGovern was forced to abandon during the primary campaign. After McGovern persuaded Larry O'Brien to sign on as national campaign director, Rival Gary Hart started putting out reports that O'Brien's role was really rather inconsequential. McGovern was outraged -as was O'Brien. After a recent press conference, O'Brien snidely told Hart: "Your candidate looks tired, Mr. Campaign Manager. You'd better see that he gets...
...been under from its allies. Communist leaders are known to have pressed the North Vietnamese for an agreement based on the May 8 plan, noting that Nixon is unlikely to make more concessions. The North Vietnamese, however, know that Nixon faces an election in four months against a rival who has vowed to stop U.S. bombing on Inauguration Day and pull all U.S. forces out within 90 days thereafter. As one North Vietnamese diplomat put it last week: "Nixon is bound by time. We have no time frame...
...Volz was one of the lucky ones when the tabloid Daily News (circ. 207,000) was bought and closed down by its afternoon rival, the Evening Star (circ. 303,000). He will be one of 30 or so staffers absorbed by the Star. Some 570 others will be out of work unless they can catch on elsewhere in the 17-paper Scripps-Howard chain, which founded the Daily News...
...competition for the afternoon advertising dollar. Star President John H. Kauffmann expects to pick up both circulation and ad linage in the takeover and make the newly named Evening Star and Washington Daily News profitable. He also hopes to make it into more formidable competition for its sole remaining rival, the morning Washington Post (circ...
...breakthrough in the stalemated process of creating a larger and more unified European Economic Community. The French President was hesitant. "I am tempted to remain faithful to my fellow countryman, even though he came to a bad end," he replied, alluding to the fact that Danton was guillotined by rival revolutionaries during the Reign of Terror in 1794. But, added Pompidou, "we need not only boldness but also a sense of reality. One does not work without the other...