Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Comparisons aren't completely apt, because Christy's newest store is only about 70 percent completed. In October, the Mt. Auburn store will bring a new twist to late-night snacking when it opens a full-line deli and produce section that promises to rival White Hen Pantry's Sandwich Works...
...Harvard women's tennis squad equaled its male counterpart with an undefeated Ivy slate last year--and the women have four recruits and one transfer arriving: Nicole Rival of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Mimi Kaufmen of Newton, Mass.; Christina Dragomirescu of Long Island, N.Y.; and Stacy Greenebaum of Louisville, Ky. Floridian Cindy Phillips is a junior transfer from Tufts University...
...Nobel prizes to 29, of which 25 have been won by the scientific and medical departments, whose scholarly explorations Harvard contemplates with special pride. Among the others: significant discoveries in the fields of chemical bonding, laser spectroscopy and quantum electrodynamics. President Paul Gray of M.I.T., Harvard's great scientific rival and neighbor on the Charles, twits Harvard for its emphasis on esoteric research. "M.I.T.," Gray says, "is more at ease with the real world." To which Paul Martin, dean of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences, replies with a seigneurish thrust: "The kind of research done here...
Time's chief rival in the national news-weeklygame, Newsweek, gave Harvard and its birthday acomparative pittance of coverage. A teaser at thetop of its cover asks, "Harvard at 350: Why theMystique?" Inside, playwright and author MarkO'Donnell '76, attempts in an idiosyncratic essayto answer that question, as only a former Lampoonpresident can. But the editors deemed a story on"TV's Fun Couple," Bruce Willis and CybillShepherd of "Moonlighting," more worthy of a coverstory...
...world's designer royalty, Lauren, 46, is the king of American sportswear, which in today's fashion parlance encompasses everything from swimsuits to semiformal evening wear. He reigns as the natural successor to Bill Blass and John Weitz, the first generation of U.S. celebrity designers. Lauren's chief rival, as coincidence would have it, comes from the same Bronx neighborhood. He is Calvin Klein, who has crafted an image of sizzling sexiness as singular as Lauren's aura of rich romance. But Lauren has kept ahead of his onetime neighbor in both popular and negotiable currency: Lauren's total sales...