Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terror arrives with the sound of rolling thunder and the flash of perpetual lightning. Hour after hour, petrified families huddle in basements and stairwells as booming howitzers rain shells over the city. For the 1.2 million residents of Beirut, the past month has been a living hell. Rival militias have relentlessly pounded the Muslim and Christian halves of Beirut, with shells tearing into houses, apartment buildings, schools and even hospitals. Ambulances careen through deserted streets scooping up bodies sliced by shrapnel. During early-morning lulls, men scurry out to buy increasingly scarce bread and bottled water. Then they stop...
...News & Business Channel, a cable service that will be launched next week by NBC, is causing plenty of stir. The channel will compete directly with cable's chief business-news outlet, the Financial News Network (FNN). But some in the cable industry believe that CNBC has a much bigger rival in its sights: Ted Turner's cable news giant...
After six days of intermittent violence and confusion, the streets of the capital of Port-au-Prince were still tense late last week. Rival military troops maintained an uneasy standoff after nearly a week of exchanging shouted insults and machine-gun rounds. As the country slid toward chaos, a state of emergency was declared, independent radio stations were shut down and curfews were imposed...
What evidently aroused India's ire was Nepal's 1988 purchase of guns and other weaponry from China, a longtime Indian rival. New Delhi regards the deal as a violation of the spirit of its 39-year-old friendship treaty with Katmandu. But Nepal seems determined to stand up to India's pressure, even if that means short-term suffering and completely revising its trade relations. Says a senior Nepalese official: "We will not give an inch...
...what a show it's been. The Crimson (11-5 overall, 2-0 EITA) defeated Penn and perennial rival Columbia last weekend in convincing fashion. The team puts its undefeated EITA league record on the line today against Navy (14-7, 1-4) in Annapolis, Md. Tomorrow, the Crimson travels to Morgantown, W.V., to face West Virginia (11-12), which was ranked number-one in the East in the pre-season...