Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale's Grinch-like defense is anchored by goalie Bryan Martin, who received Ivy Player of the Week honors for his efforts. The Columbia game marked the fourth time this season that Martin has shut out an Ivy rival...
Elmuts and Minkus dropped their match at the number-two doubles spot, 7-5, 6-4, to Lapidus and McKeen, while Pollack and Captain Niki Rival lost to Kepler and Kopack...
...season for naming Nobel laureates, but it is also a propitious time for scientists to reveal discoveries that may win future Nobels. Last week, even as this year's Nobel winners were reacting to their awards, two teams of physicists made just such a landmark announcement. In rival statements -- one from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, the other from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva -- scientists disclosed findings they say establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that the universe contains precisely three fundamental types, or families, of matter. No more, no less...
...began last month when Japan's Sony agreed to buy Columbia for $3.4 billion and made plans to hire hit-making producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters (Rain Man, Batman) to run the studio. But the two men had signed an exclusive five-year deal to make movies for rival Warner. The two sides tried to negotiate a settlement, but last week both filed major lawsuits. Warner wants $1 billion for the loss of Guber and Peters, while Sony rejects Warner's claims and is asking for $100 million...
...money into a market that once consisted mainly of lackluster small-circulation Spanish dailies. In 1988 the Hallmark greeting-card company bought Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., from a Mexican media conglomerate for nearly $600 million. The year before, Saul Steinberg's Reliance Group formed rival network Telemundo, which teamed up with CNN to produce a competing evening national news broadcast...