Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court's great tasks is moderation, the accommodation of rival interests and especially so in a nation undergoing explosive social change. Unless decisions are explained with sufficient care, lower courts may be unclear about the broad principles they are supposed to apply in particular cases. When the Supreme Court scants reason in favor of mere results, says Stanford's Gerald Gunther, a decision may be "valid only as long as you have a majority of five votes. As the reasons get weaker, a later judge is freer to follow his own likes and dislikes. A decision...
...Fool's Bargain." NATO insists that any force reductions must be reciprocal, phased and balanced. Yet it will be extremely difficult for rival blocs to agree upon the calculus by which both sides could scale down without upsetting the present precarious balance of military power in Central Europe...
...long can I go on telling jokes and drinking? I can see the handwriting on the floor right now"). At the height of what he called "the Great Drought" (Prohibition), he was earning $650 a week performing in a mob-owned Chicago speakeasy. In 1927 he switched to a rival band's establishment, and Machine Gun Jack McGurn administered a lesson in loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage, Lewis underwent years of therapy before fully regaining his speech. By the late 1930s he was back on top of the saloon circuit. A fixture...
Long before Anna's real estate and construction company, Beni Immobili Italia, last year joined SACIE, a larger rival in the building business, the 60-year-old Milan matron had become rejected-and feared-by captains of Italian industry. As far back as 1956, Alberto Pirelli, the tire magnate, chose Anna to put up his empire's 32-story headquarters in Milan. "I look at the price and the quality," he said, "not the sex." Three years ago she initiated a move by major shareholders of La Centrale, a leading holding company, to take power away from...
...infrequent. On a talk show that really lives or dies on the quality of the conversation, Cavett conducts the chatter at a brisk tempo and with a sense of timing and effortless whimsy that can fracture a guest as well as an audience. Once Norman Mailer teased Cavett about Rival David Frost. When Mailer rose a moment later, a book fell from his pocket. Quipped Cavett: "You dropped your copy of Dale Carnegie." Last week, after Cavett Idol Groucho Marx had trespassed repeatedly on Truman Capote's attempts to complete a sentence, Cavett asked Groucho: "Do you have the feeling...