Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's toughest match of the trip was against third-ranked UCLA. In singles action, Nikki Rival was the only one to win a match against the powerful Bruin squad...
...choice of Gingrich, a former history professor, may mean an era of confrontational politics in the House, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 258 to 174. By selecting the aggressive Gingrich over his mild-mannered rival, Illinois' Edward Madigan, House Republicans signaled that they want more lash in their whip. "We had a choice of being attack dogs or lapdogs," said a G.O.P. lawmaker. "We decided attack dogs are more useful...
...night of Dec. 19, 1987, Lafester Rhodes did what no one in Iowa State history had done before. He scored 54 points in a single game, razor-edging rival University of Iowa 102-100. No one who saw that game will ever forget Lafester Rhodes. But these days he doesn't feel like much of a champion...
...have arrested almost 40,000 suspects in drug cases, but the District has long since run out of courtrooms to try them and prison cells in which to incarcerate them. Police Chief Maurice Turner said on TV last week that the cops were virtually powerless to stop warfare between rival drug dealers. Whether a cessation of hostilities will result from Bennett's shock treatment for the nation's capital remains very much to be seen...
Founded by land developers as a farming center in the 1860s, Clay Center had hopes of becoming a rival of Chicago. Nowadays the four stoplights that mark the corners of the town's courthouse square often change from green to yellow to red without anybody noticing. Most of the shops on the town square rarely get more than two customers at a time. Shoppers who once bustled along the dusty main strip have defected to the new mall in Manhattan, 40 miles to the southeast, or the Wal-Mart outside Concordia, equidistant in the opposite direction...