Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detect a one-last-fling attitude on the part of customers, many merchants have been notably cautious in stocking up, largely because high interest rates make borrowing to carry a large inventory too much of a risk. Says Leonard Lauder, president of Estée Lauder Inc., Revlon's toughest rival in the high-priced end of the cosmetics business: "The thing I predict with absolute certainty for this Christmas is that the people who wait until Dec. 24 to do their shopping will find the shelves bare...
...best proof of his commitment [to trimming the budget] is that he can't get re-elected unless he deals with inflation." But if Carter cuts too sharply he will alienate many of the groups?liberals, minorities, labor?who supported him in '76. Senator Ted Kennedy, a potential Carter rival in 1980, has already threatened to fight any reductions in health appropriations. Anticipating an intraparty battle ahead, a Kennedy staffer warns: "There's going to be a lot of blood on the floor...
...weekly A.P. and U.P.I, polls of sportswriters and coaches, but never was it No. 1. This year, however, the men from State College, Pa., finally made it to the top -first in all the polls and, after last week's 17-10 win over intrastate rival Pittsburgh, the only major unbeaten team left in the nation...
...only star in the Crimson galaxy. As the men in the maroon speedos demonstrated last week in trouncing a surprisingly strong Columbia team, 76-37, they have the kind of depth that makes you wonder if Bernal hasn't been taking a few lessons from his rival in Tigertown, Bill Farley...
...Baldrige Vanderbilt makes a handsome flipping book, although it cannot rival in sheer opulence of detail and gesture the original Emily Post (1922), with its tensely fascinating vignettes, involving Mrs. Cravin Praise, Mr. Stocksan Bonds, Mrs. Climber, Mrs. Oldworld, Mrs. Wellborn, the Upstarts and the Richan Vulgars (see box). Tish is always straightforward, forbearing and rather elegant in her directness. She enjoys making sense...