Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Northrop Corp. bills its F-20 Tigershark jet as a lean, mean, less costly fighting machine. Its rival for the affections of Pentagon purchasers is General Dynamics' F-16 Fighting Falcon, the trim singleengine warplane that has been an Air Force staple for 2 1/2 years. Originally designed primarily for foreign sales, the F-20 has not sold a single plane; apparently foreign buyers are not interested in a plane that the Pentagon will not buy. In an attempt to crack the market, Northrop made an extraordinary offer to sell 396 F-20s to the Pentagon at $15 million apiece...
...eager was Pepsi to capitalize on its rival's new taste that it videotaped the commercial the weekend after Coke's surprise announcement and rushed it onto the air the following Monday. Normally television advertisements are done on film, and production can take months. Explained Director of Publicity Rebecca Madeira: "We are taking advantage of what we see as a big window to win over dyed-in-the-wool Coca-Cola drinkers...
...undercover operation dubbed Roughrider, part of a larger effort by Washington to snuff out new and unorthodox forms of organized crime. Authorities confiscated $2 million worth of illegal drugs during their investigation, including methamphetamines, cocaine and LSD. A similar multistate raid in February corralled about 90 members of a rival motorcycle gang, the Bandidos, on drug and weapons charges. Declared Attorney General Edwin Meese in announcing the operation: "Once again, we see the consummate value of the undercover technique in a particularly dangerous and difficult undertaking designed to penetrate and expose a major criminal enterprise...
...public feuding, in the face of critical rejection and box-office failure, he went on writing, morning after diligent morning, no matter how he had misspent the night before. That poignant fact confers dignity on what was otherwise the pathetic wreckage of genius. Unlike Eugene O'Neill, his chief rival for the laurel as America's greatest playwright, Williams left no posthumous masterpiece. Indeed, unless future generations discern something more than glimmers of incandescence in the murky, forgettable plays of his last two decades, his effective career may be said to have stopped after the production of Night...
...still excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge and canal in a few electric jottings of bister ink--seems remote...