Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collegiate scene, Harvard's undefeated football team takes on cross-town rival B.U. on Saturday at Soldiers Field. Game time will...
Pennsylvania dropped an interesting but unimpressive decision to traditional rival Lehigh on Friday night...
...latest Canadian Gallup poll the Liberals, who won 43% of the vote in the 1974 election, were held in favor by only 29% of the electorate, v. 47% for the rival Progressive Conservatives. If an election were held now, the Liberals would be out of power for only the second time in 40 years, with their strength confined mainly to French-speaking Quebec, Trudeau's home turf...
Before the week was out, however, the Dutch government released new evidence that Prince Bernhard had also lobbied on behalf of Lockheed's chief rival, Northrop Aircraft. A 1971 exchange of letters between the Dutch and West German Defense Ministers referred to Prince Bernhard's attempts to persuade West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (then Defense Minister) to purchase Northrop's YF-17 Cobra prototype fighter to replace Lockheed's Starfighter. Although the Dutch commission did not fully explore the prince's links with Northrop, several Dutch newspapers are now investigating the matter...
...usually managed to arbitrate their business disputes, but after he died in 1959 the tensions increased until, in 1965, they exploded into a fistfight. The other family members talked Robert into taking a six-month leave to cool off. He soon concluded they wanted him out and started a rival business, the Robert Mondavi Winery-while still sharing the family's profits from Krug. In a final burst of fraternal affection, Peter helped his brother-competitor by arranging for Krug to crush grapes for the new winery and lending it a badly needed bottling machine...