Word: rivalling
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Until recently, the chief moral authority for radical students was Herbert Marcuse, the septuagenarian Marx-influenced philosopher and author of One-Dimensional Man. He faces a hot new rival: Yale Law Professor Charles Reich, 42, author of The Greening of America. Though Reich acknowledges an intellectual debt to Marcuse, the old philosopher has now lit into Reich for missing the main point. Writing on the opposite-editorial page of the New York Times last week, Marcuse attacked Reich's view that a more humane America will be born as the nation is inherited by young subscribers to the anticapitalist...
...Maitland's view there is no humanity in such a war and the book's cast of caricatures exhibits none. They include Wilkinson, a cowardly war correspondent; a general who invents a major enemy offensive to derail the Paris peace talks (rival U.S. Army and Marine Corps units end up bombarding each other); and a CIA agent who, while posing as a beggar, learns of a Tet offensive against the most cherished spot in Saigon...
Harvard is now three points ahead of its closest rival, Brown (3-1-1), with only two games to play. The Crimson needs a tie against the Bruins or Yale to clinch a share of the Ivy title...
Frontierro's love of competition is particularly aroused when his team, Northeastern, races Harvard, and his favorite rival is the Crimson's John Quirk...
Common Currency. If the Common Market countries want to go further and create a Eurocurrency to rival the dollar, they will gradually have to give up much of their individual autonomy. For example, they would have to harmonize their policies that affect both inflation and economic growth rates. Ultimately, they would have to adopt a common tax system and jointly set national budgets. Having done all that, the Common Market could expand its present customs union into a full economic and monetary confederation. Thereafter, member countries would no longer be able to finance government deficits (except with the consent...