Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, some small investors are buying Treasuries by withdrawing money from accounts in banks or in savings and loans, which prompts Federal Reserve officials to point out that they do not deliberately try to compete with private institutions. Even so, the Government is a tough rival. Its customers can save the $25-to-$50 commissions that brokers and commercial banks charge on Treasury sales by purchasing the securities directly from the Government at a Federal Reserve Bank. For many investors, safety is still the ultimate lure. Said a Chicago police officer after buying a Treasury bond last week...
Instead, after dropping a 13-3 decision yesterday morning to defending champion Slippery Rock, Harvard faced familiar rival MIT in the third-place game and ended its season with a 10-6 victory over the Engineers...
...performance, having vowed not to smoke another cigar till the Dow Jones average tops 2722. He tends to dwell on his losses, even though he started out with $8,000 in 1977 and by taking his own advice has boosted it to $422,000. Charles Allmon, a rival newsletter editor, suggests that Frank is a ringer, a "riverboat gambler" suitably disguised by self-deprecation and a digressive academic manner. Frank replies that Allmon, who has lately kept his portfolios in cash, just can't handle the action anymore. He's got "gun-shy." Las Vegas is not big enough...
There is one rival that doesn't shoot there, though it might want to shoot at it. For a quarter-century, Universal Studios has considered erecting a studio park in Florida to complement its Southern California facility...
...everything from condominiums to gravel pits, they must move carefully to avoid triggering a plunge in property values. -- Despite a rising Dow, Wall Street faces more layoffs and falling profits. -- Control Data pulls out of the supercomputer market, leaving Cray Research as the sole U.S. firm to compete against rival Japanese manufacturers...