Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson won the District of Columbia, capturing a Democratic consolation prize and his first primary victory in six weeks. But Dukakis shed some of his customary caution and proclaimed, "I think it's going to be difficult" for his only remaining Democratic rival to deny him the nomination...
...vice president's "Over The Top" rally ina Washington hotel, Bush proclaimed the RepublicanParty is united as it heads into the fall campaignand he took a shot at his likely Democratic rival...
Jackson last week expressed his "sincere congratulations and respectful appreciation" to Dukakis for running a high-road campaign. Dukakis lately has been almost flowery in public allusions to his rival. Yet the prospect of genuine comradeship between these diametrically opposed personalities seems farfetched. The two men are poles apart in their approaches to just about - everything...
Even more daring was the decision by GE to team up with a foreign rival, France's SNECMA, to design and produce the engine. Their partnership, the first of its kind, arose in 1971 from the friendship between two old soldiers: SNECMA's chairman Rene Ravaud, a crusty, one-armed hero of the French Resistance, and GE's chief enginemaker Gerhard Neumann, who had served as ground-crew chief for the Flying Tigers in China. Each company brought a key ingredient to the partnership: GE shared its high-tech engine core, while the French firm contributed financing from its government...
...CFM56 has no real rival, because Pratt & Whitney scuttled its plans to build a similar model. The engine builder, a division of Connecticut's United Technologies, cut development plans in the 1970s under the parent company's acquisitive chairman, Harry Gray. "Instead of building this engine, Gray * bought Otis Elevator. It was a monstrous mistake," says Wolfgang Demisch, who follows the industry for the Union Bank of Switzerland. The company later suffered "a market-share erosion as severe as any I can bring to mind," said Demisch...