Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event he doesn't make the Celtics, Dover is hoping to arrange a try-out with the rival ABA. "I know a man in New York who is now talking with the New York Nets," he said. "He seemed sure that I would be able to try-out with them...
...Actually, you know, my only international rival is Tintin [a comic-strip character]. We are the little fellows who refuse to be had by the big fellows. People don't notice the resemblance because of my stature...
Ordinarily, bankers keep their charges for borrowing in lockstep with those of rival lenders. But when the Chase Manhattan Bank initiated the latest round of interest-rate reductions two weeks ago, other bankers grumbled that it was too much too soon. The Chase sliced its prime rate by a fat ½%, from 5¾% to 5¼%. It was the tenth drop in the prime since June 1969, when it was at an alltime high of 8½%, and the eighth reduction in the past four months. Instead of going along as usual, other bankers reluctantly lowered their prime rates...
...Absences also run high on days of bannerline sports events and before or after the 17 national holidays. At Fiat, which employs 185,000 people, an average 20,000 workers stay home daily, a number roughly equal to the entire work force of the huge automaker's smaller rival, Alfa Romeo. Assembly-line workers argue that they need time off now and then because the job diminishes their sexual prowess and induces a nervous tic they call the "Charlie Chaplin twitch...
Student groups have pressured the university to buy only lettuce picked by the United Farm Workers headed by Cesar Chavez. But university officials said they couldn't because they were committed to making all purchases on bids. Another stumbling block came from a rival student group that said all lettuce should come from Teamsters Union Fields...