Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itol Hill, he may find it difficult to achieve the public stature of O'Neill, who in the Reagan years became the nation's most visible Democrat. With Democrats again in charge of the Senate and a presidential campaign just revving up, Wright will have many a rival for that role...
Evidence of the Hiss Joke as early as the Stone Age has been unearthed by acheologists. Apparently, Cro-Magnon lecturers would talk about buffalo hides or something, and if they ever mentioned our rival species, which at the time was the emu I believe, all the little Cro-Magnons would hiss and then laugh long and hard into the starry night...
Ironically, the Israelis may have had little to do with Weir's freedom. According to the Repatriation Front, the release was arranged by the Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, a religious radical and Khomeini's heir apparent. Montazeri was evidently chagrined by his rival Rafsanjani's diplomatic overtures and decided to one-up the mullah by showing that he had sufficient influence to win freedom for an American hostage. "It is clear that the Americans did not understand who they were dealing with," says one knowledgeable dissident. "It seems they thought they were still dealing with one Iranian government, just...
...brought to the hard task of converting a dead station into a live museum and finishing with the range and stature of its collections, the museum is exemplary. It shows what state patronage can do. Nothing the private sector could summon up, in or out of France, could possibly rival...
...weather and stormy relations with the locals. He was forced to move the shooting from Chimayo, a community 20 miles north of Santa Fe, to nearby Truchas, after property owners objected to the presence of a movie crew in their quiet, residential area. Next came a lawsuit by rival filmmakers claiming that Redford had violated their rights to the Nichols story; the case is still pending. By the time the movie, which stars Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman), Salsa Singer Ruben Blades and Christopher Walken (At Close Range), finally wrapped last week, it was a month late...