Word: rivalling
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These concepts do not mean the same in the Soviet Union as in the West, and their application will certainly remain limited by Western standards. There is cause for concern that an economically rejuvenated Soviet Union would be an even more dangerous military rival than it is now. Yet if glasnost, demokratizatsiya and perestroika result in less repressiveness and more economic security, and if that helps make the U.S.S.R. a better global citizen and the world a safer place -- some very big ifs -- then the West too may benefit from Gorbachev's reforms...
Among Republicans, George Bush is doing a Midas turn. His FEC report will show cumulative receipts of $9.3 million, a tribute to his drawing power in the G.O.P. establishment. Bush has already spent more than most candidates have taken in. Rival campaigns have a frail hope: that Bush will spend so freely he will collide with the federal expenditure ceiling before the nomination...
...filmmakers' quest for authentic detail provided moments of offscreen drama. Plans to use a Fortune magazine cover in exchange for promotional ads got bogged down when rival Forbes magazine made a similar offer. In the end, Stone stuck with Fortune, but not without miffing Publisher Malcolm Forbes, who politely turned down later requests to use his private yacht. More crucial was the race to finish Wall Street before the looming directors' strike, which was expected this week. Stone mobilized his film forces, switching the last few weeks from twelve- to 14-hour days, and wrapped on July 4, five days...
...British tabloids, however, toasted Diana's birthday in a very different way. WHAT HAPPENS IF CHARLES AND DI DIVORCE? bannered the sensationalist Sun across a two-page spread. "It's unthinkable," noted the paper in considerably smaller type. "But anything goes with the royals these days." Declared the rival Daily Express: "She's 26 today, far from shy and surrounded by Hip Hoorays who dance and joke with her till dawn...
...royal family has never lacked for ink in the British press, especially ! in the flashier tabloids whose rival scoops are sometimes mountains built from one grain of fact. Diana, in particular, attracts headlines: over the course of her six-year marriage to Prince Charles, she has been reported pregnant countless times, has spent a king's ransom on clothes and was anorexic. Lately, however, British papers have been feasting on an unusually large banquet of negative stories about the younger royals, including once unthinkable innuendos about (gasp!) Diana's marital fidelity...