Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After an eighteen year lapse, which even Seltzer's mellifluous reading of the part of Father Time cannot spare from incredibility, we are treated to the spectacle of Perdita's youthful love for Florizel, the son of Polivenes, her father's brother and amorous rival. Here the production shoots off in the direction of excess...
...coup for Florida's flamboyant Republican Governor, Claude Kirk, who sees in it an opportunity to boost his own sagging chances for reelection. Not only would Carswell's popularity in Florida help Kirk at the polls, but his nomination would eliminate Cramer, Kirk's longtime rival for control of the state G.O.P. It would also help Gurney, fearful of the powerful Cramer's rivalry in the Senate. Cramer dismissed the Carswell race as "just another one of Claudius' [Kirk's] circus acts...
...Rival Release. Lipman was hired for the inquest by District Attorney Edmund Dinis, who suggested that the stenographer could undoubtedly supplement his court fee by selling transcripts to the press. Lipman assembled a six-man team including two reporters, two secretaries, a duplicator operator and a messenger boy. He contracted with news organizations to sell 79 transcripts at $1.05 per page or $802.20 per set. Then Lipman discovered that a Suffolk Superior Court clerk, Edward V. Keating, planned to release the transcript at the bargain price of $75 per copy...
...that Lenin advocated. As he saw it, small bands of professional revolutionaries would inspire the masses and lead them in forcibly overthrowing established regimes. This was his hope as he waited in self-imposed exile in Western Europe around the turn of the century. There, amid endless quarrels with rival Socialist exiles, he created his own cadre of disciples who expected revolutions to break out in Europe and then spread throughout the world. Lenin's journal Iskra (The Spark), was printed abroad and smuggled into Russia. "Out of this spark," grandly proclaimed the first issue, "will come a conflagration...
Several suppliers of computer services were also in trouble. Los Angeles-based Computer Sciences Corp. discontinued Computicket, a system that sold theater and sports tickets at terminals linked to a central computer. Computicket had been losing clients to a rival service, Ticketron. At the same time, Manhattan's Computer Applications, Inc. scrapped Speedata, a computerized system for reporting grocery sales and prices. The company simply could net raise the $2,000,000 more needed to make the system profitable...