Word: rivalling
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Peres has problems within his own ranks as well. He has already promised the Defense post to Yitzhak Rabin, his bitter rival and Israel's Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977. Rabin still enjoys strong support within Labor; if Peres does not deliver on his pledge, Rabin could succeed in scuttling a national unity agreement. In addition Mapam, a leftist party that holds six of Labor's 44 seats in the 120-member Knesset, has threatened to quit the Labor alignment if a Labor-Likud government is formed...
Procter & Gamble is jealously proud of its Duncan Hines brand of homemade-style chocolate chip cookies. To guard the secret of its crispy-outside, chewy-inside baking technique, P & G patented it last June and then sued three rival food giants. The suits charged that the competitors have been using P & G's patented process to make "infringing cookies," and had spied at a sales presentation and at cookie plants, once even flying a plane over a facility under construction...
...parties be covered by contracts, and that the "societal parents" (i.e., those who plan to rear the baby) have "all parental rights and responsibilities for a child, regardless of the condition of the child, conceived through a fertility technique." At the same time, another Michigan legislator has drafted a rival law making all surrogate parenting a crime punishable by up to 90 days in prison and a $10,000 fine for a first offense. Both legislators hope the issue will come to a vote this fall-presumably after Election...
...Shaffer resurrected in fictional form for his 1979 play Amadeus, one peculiar genius was even more frightening: a precious gift and a malicious joke from God. The creature's name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-"Spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart!" as the play's Salieri, his contemporary and rival, calls him. "I had heard a voice of God," the Italian mutters after listening to a Mozart adagio, "and it was the voice of an obscene child!" Salieri carried a double curse: to appreciate beyond pain or pleasure Mozart's genius and to realize that his disease was incommunicable...
...line. Amadeus may be a popular film for the same reason it is a good one: it paints, in vibrant strokes, an image of the artist as romantic hero. The textbook Mozart, embalmed in immortality, comes raucously alive as a punk rebel, grossing out the Establishment, confuting his chief rival, working himself to death in an effort to put on paper songs no one else can hear. Who among us cannot sympathize, even identify, with such an icon of iconoclasm? In real life we may all be Salieris, but we can respond to a movie that tells...