Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They sit in the student section, wearing Harvard sweatshirts and bunny masks that rival Bugs, Peter and Roger...
...good news is that the Government is waking up to the threat from Japan and beginning to respond in a very Japanese way: by encouraging rival firms to cooperate rather than compete on the most difficult research tasks. The U.S. is making concerted efforts in several strategically important fields...
...Western historians, the amnesty may apply to as many as 20 million people, a large number of them posthumously. Another post-Stalinist landmark: the weekly magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta published a detailed account of the role played by the dictator's secret police in the 1940 assassination of his exiled rival Leon Trotsky, finally acknowledging that the killer was acting on Stalin's orders...
...even the enthusiasms of Bernard Berenson and his heir Pope-Hennessy could give a Sienese artist like Sassetta the popularity of a Florentine like Botticelli. Even today, Sano di Pietro and the Master of the Osservanza are not exactly names to conjure with. Florence, Siena's political and cultural rival, emerged from their wars victorious in more ways than one. Firenze has always dominated the Western imagination. You cannot imagine the city of Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Leonardo and Michelangelo any differently: Florence was the locus classicus of Renaissance thought...
...plane-ordering boom has ensured enough orders for the takeoff of the company's once doubtful MD-11. A longer and more fuel-efficient version of the company's phased-out DC-10 line, the $100 million MD-11 has pulled in 47 orders, and gives Douglas a rival to the larger Boeing and Airbus models...