Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's basketball team pulverized Ivy rival Penn 87-73. While the Quakers (3-13 overall, 1-3 Ivy) are traveling down a long, winding road, the Crimson (11-5, 5-0) is steering a direct course toward a repeat Ivy League Championship...
...rose to become the reputed boss of New York City's Gambino crime family, John (Big John) Gotti survived a planned rubout by rival mobsters, a four-year prison term for attempted manslaughter, and a sensational eight-month trial in 1987 that led to his acquittal on racketeering charges. Last week he confronted what prosecutors claim to be the most formidable charges brought against the dapper reputed gangster since a murder indictment 15 years ago. Gotti claims he makes his living as a salesman for a plumbing company...
...unlike the Crimson, has faced a string of teams in the past week. In addition to Harvard, the Wildcats came up against Brooklyn, Dartmouth and Northeastern, and it meets rival Maine today...
...Wall Street some traders noted with satisfaction that the rival Chicago markets, which many New York investors blamed for aggravating the stock-market crash of '87, were getting a dose of the scrutiny that the stock markets have long endured. Said the president of a Big Board firm: "There is some quiet delight that the Chicago boys are finally getting their comeuppance...
...Browns won the game that night, the title that year and the decade on balance. Montana is Van Buren now, and it is the decade that the 49ers are after. For the first time in his ten seasons, San Francisco's darling quarterback has had an internal rival, one with the disturbing name of Steve Young. Montana is only 32 but has charted enough maladies, highlighted by back surgery two years ago, to feel older. His favorite receiver and off-field running mate, Dwight Clark, 32, retired with creaky knees this season. "Losing Clark," coach Walsh theorizes, "may have started...