Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble making ends meet. Wilson's "sunshine economy" could not last, he warned. If Labor was elected, there would be another "freeze and squeeze" on wages and profits. "That's life with Labor. Four years squeeze and four months sunshine," Heath told crowds. Not on speaking terms with his rival, he zeroed in on Harold Wilson's credibility. Time and again he appealed to "those who despise the slick trick, the easy promise" to turn the Labor rascals out. Heath even raised the fear that Wilson, who devalued the pound in 1967, might be forced to do so again...
...Hothead. It was finally ruled that Carty belonged to the Braves. During his rookie season he subsisted mainly on hamburger (the first English word he mastered), but today he is known to rival players as a "hot dog"-locker-room lingo for showoff. Ever smiling, Carty always catches the ball one-handed, waves to the fans, and tosses balls to them. He wants to be known as a "hoppy guy," not as the hotheaded player who once slugged Teammate Hank Aaron...
...allowed Stephens to build a bigger boat; theoretically, at least, the longer the waterline, the faster the boat. INTREPID should probably be rechristened Son of Intrepid. Designer Britton Chance Jr., 29, has altered the 1967 cup winner so much that it is virtually a new boat. According to one rival designer, Chance "performed a hysterectomy on her keel," radically shortening and reshaping it in an effort to give the boat more "lift" to windward and help it perform better in lighter winds. The bow and stern remain the same, but the afterbody has been made fuller with the addition...
Seeking a Comeback. I.O.S. now needs two things: cash and the confidence of investors. Other groups, including rival foreign-based funds, have been dickering to gain control of I.O.S. and provide just that. Last week, in the Paris headquarters of the French Rothschilds, Guy de Rothschild chaired a secret meeting of European and U.S. bankers to hammer out a proposal for taking over I.O.S. Rothschild's interest was more than the noblesse oblige of a patrician banker. His Banque Rothschild was an underwriter of I.O.S.'s $54 million stock issue last fall, and the Rothschild reputation for astuteness...
...amount of Eurodollars that U.S. banks could borrow. That would hurt money-short U.S. businesses by cutting down the supply of lendable funds in America. In the long run, a common European currency would reduce the world's dependency on the dollar by introducing a potent rival in the exchange markets...