Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will the National Unity Government last? It surprised many that it endured the rotation, given Labor's inherent lack of interest in implementing the agreement. Labor does not have Likud's incentive to accomodate the Prime Minister of a rival party. Frictions will increase...
Robinson certainly got the attention of his front-running Democratic rival with a radio commerical in which DeNucci repeatedly says, "I have to have rocks in my head" in response to questions about his qualifications...
...South Dakota the race could be called the Jane Fonda election. When first- term Republican Senator James Abdnor found himself trailing telegenic Democrat Tom Daschle by nine points, he unleashed a barrage of TV spots charging that his rival had consorted at a congressional hearing with Fonda, conservative America's most reviled radical. Fonda, Abdnor pointed out, had urged people not to eat red meat; beef and pork are among South Dakota's biggest farm products. The upshot: Abdnor has now pulled slightly ahead...
Florida's Republican Senator Paula Hawkins accuses Democratic Rival Bob Graham of accepting support from the Young Communist League. In Wisconsin, Democratic Challenger Ed Garvey was accused of hiring a private eye to snoop into Republican Senator Robert Kasten's affairs. Maryland Republican Linda Chavez, a mother of three, derides her opponent, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, who has never married, as "antimale" and a "San Francisco-style" liberal...
...singles chart, while the album has reached No. 8. The flamboyant singer, who recently posed for a saucy array of promotional shots, is in Italy working on a new video to keep the record rolling. Good as Lauper is at grabbing the eye on a half shell, her artistic rival Madonna found a way to reach the video generation without shelling out anything. She held a "Make My Video" contest on MTV, and more than 1,000 entries poured in. Last week a black-and-white amateur production set to her song True Blue won a $25,000 cash prize...