Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week the company agreed to a friendly acquisition by Warner Communications, whose TV studio already produces such hits as Night Court and Growing Pains, for $630 million in stock and the assumption of $550 million of Lorimar's debt. But late in the week came word of a potential rival bid. Marvin Davis, the Denver oilman who once owned 20th Century Fox, is considering making an offer of about $690 million for Lorimar. A Dallas-style brawl may ensue...
...that a high-powered athletic department, top-flight business, law and education schools and a respectable, if not quite superlative, humanities program, and you get major headaches for recruiters at rival institutions. Moans a Yale University admissions officer: "Stanford's got everything -- great climate, great physical plant, terrific extracurriculars and, increasingly, world-class academics." No less impressed, Cornell University President Frank Rhodes declares, "Stanford is not simply a great national institution, but one of the world's great institutions." That collegial admiration was reflected last October in a U.S. News & World Report survey in which university presidents were asked...
Eastern and Continental are not the only airlines to go through a chastening | process. Texas Air's chief rival, Dallas-based American, was slapped with a $1.5 million fine three years ago by the FAA. Although the airline admitted no wrongdoing, it boosted its maintenance payroll by 3,000 workers, to 9,471 at present, and doubled the number of its repair stations, to 39. Nor is Chicago- based United immune to safety problems. Last week a United 747 with 258 people aboard barely reached Tokyo's airport on just one of its four engines after apparently suffering a malfunction...
...idyllic climate, high- powered athletics, a healthy endowment and a commitment to academic excellence combine to make Palo Alto one of the hottest spots on the map of American higher education -- and a major headache for admissions officers at rival colleges. Cornell University President Frank Rhodes calls it "one of the world' s great institutions...
With 56 percent of Nebraska's precincts reporting, it was Dukakis 65 percent, Jackson 25 percent. Dukakis was leading for 18 delegates, to 7 for his rival...