Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rival aerospace men now argue that Lockheed judged badly in choosing a foreign producer to develop a complex new engine at an unrealistic price. Moreover, in the view of many American businessmen, the British government failed to make enough of an effort to honor foreign commitments after the company went bankrupt and the government took over. As a result, the prestige of British industry in the U.S. has been hurt more than is generally recognized. U.S. engine makers believe that a loan guarantee would be an undeserved rescue of Rolls-Royce as well as of Lockheed...
Kissinger was referring to the remarks he had made about Nixon while serving as foreign policy advisor to Nixon's chief rival, Nelson Rockefeller, in the earlier Republican presidential campaign...
...harbor. It was a curious meeting of three Republicans who rarely agree with one another on much of anything. But Nixon's political purpose was not to mollify his fellow Republicans. Rather, by making the chopper tour, he deftly took the headlines away from a possible presidential rival, Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had scheduled a congressional hearing on the project for later in the week...
Over double Scotches in his private drawing room, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat confided to an American visitor early last week that he might shortly move to consolidate his power. He had just dismissed his chief rival, left-leaning Vice President Ali Sabry (TIME, May 17), and he hinted at further moves to strengthen his hold. Even so, few expected him to move as quickly and boldly as he did. Later in the week, in rapid-fire succession, Sadat fired Egypt's tough Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa and accepted the resignations of War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi, Minister...
...nothing of the sort. In a few pages, he sets down enough evidence to shock all but the most cynical (or most aware) of the ten thousand white men of Harvard. King reveals scenes in the Faculty Club, in a Dean's house, and in the lecture hall that rival any pictures we might have of the unreconstructed South. (Typical of these incidents is an ugly exchange in which a prominent law professor assails the intellectual credentials of the head of the Afro-American Studies Department.) No wonder, when King returns to Washington, he feels that by June 1970, "black...