Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quantity only three years ago, but they are already a red-hot industry. Last year some 4 million were sold, and sales are expected to increase by 50% in 1977. The prices for various models range from $25 to $45 and are dropping fast among the 80 to 100 rival brand-name distributors. Smoke detectors work either through photo-electric cells or an ionization device,? but fire officials generally agree that there is minimal difference in effectiveness between the two. They also warn that the occupants' chances of escape from a burning dwelling rest ultimately on a prearranged exit...
...though the deficit has dwindled, the inflation has not-and the government seems inclined to trust to a sense of national purpose rather than tough immediate measures to bring it down. Says Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin's chief rival in the upcoming elections: "Vision is worth more than economic study, and the dreamer gets better results than the best professor of economics." One such economist, Tel Aviv University President Haim Ben-Shahar, feels that only a decisive leadership, the kind that would be brave enough to stand up to political pressure groups and cut defense spending, can assure...
...from his activity in the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, where for 26 years he served as president. Four decades ago, Rose co-founded the American Labor Party; when it began to take on a Communist tint in 1944, he and other union leaders created the rival Liberal Party. The actual vote on the Liberal line was never large, but it was big enough to sway many elections. Republicans such as John Lindsay and Democrats Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim...
...game that Harvard deserved to win. The Crimson outplayed the visitors for the most part as the defense, with Jon Schuster and Jackie Hughes leading the way, created roadblocks in front of Brian Petrovek (16 saves) that will surely rival those on the Southeastern Expressway this morning...
...damage occurred when one dorm decided to retaliate against a prank played on them by a rival dorm. Before the school's annual bladderball game, students climbed up to the dorm roof and dropped the vomit-smelling chemical through a grate into the dining hall during breakfast...