Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale really isn't that much of a rival for us" freshman sprinter Ruthie Tanenbaum said. "Princeton is probably our biggest rival. They're a lot tougher...
While Ivy rival Princeton is getting all of the praise for its freshmen recuits, the Crimson has a talented group of freshmen also. Like the Tigers, Harvard's freshmen are expected to play key roles this season...
...Mikado's son, Nanki-Poo (Colum Amory), enters incognito because he is to be beheaded for refusing to marry the eminently unattractive Katisha (Laurie Myers). Nanki-Poo was counting on the imminent execution of his rival, Ko-Ko, thus facilitating his elopement with the delectable Yum-Yum (Amy Daley). To his chagrin, Ko-Ko is executioner rather than executed, and is about to marry Yum-Yum that very afternoon. Happily, Nanki-Poo is able to strike a deal with the Executioner. The Mikado's demand for an execution has imperiled Ko-Ko's life (he being the only person...
That bid, quickly dubbed a "Chicago submarine" because it would torpedo the competition, easily surpassed both rival offers. The Johnson team had bid $23 billion, or $100 a share, while KKR had proposed a package worth $21.6 billion, or $94 a share. Board members extended the deadline until Tuesday, Nov. 29, to take any counteroffers and allow time to study each proposal. If none is accepted, the directors could supervise an RJR restructuring themselves...
...year. The problem is double edged. On one hand, crack abusers frequently seem indifferent to the use of deadly force. On the other, the street-level drug trade is so lucrative that it seems worth killing for. In Washington law-enforcement officials attribute the mayhem to turf wars between rival dope gangs vying for shares of the city's wide-open, de-centralized crack market. The deadly competition in the two cities is made still more lethal by arsenals of sophisticated firearms smuggled from Virginia and other states with permissive gun laws...