Word: rivalling
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...Rival presidential candidate and Finance Committee Chair Andrea R. Flores ’10 criticized what she called his close but unproductive relationships with administrators, failure to share responsibility, and inattention to student opinion...
...because that's when employment peaked), and it's very hard to find anybody willing to predict that the economy will resume growing by May. As for severity, though the first eight months of the recession were quite mild, the pace of job losses since August is beginning to rival that of the big 1970s and '80s recessions. So while President-elect Barack Obama and others who dub this the worst downturn since the Great Depression don't have definitive evidence just yet, they're not blowing smoke either. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
...spiritual patriarch of more than 110 million members of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexy II, 79, led his followers for 18 years. Credited with restoring the church in the post-Soviet era, he mended a rift with a rival sect established by Russians who had fled the Soviet Union for the West. In his later years, Alexy was an ardent supporter of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin...
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2002, Essure coils were implanted mostly in hospitals until last year, when Conceptus, the Mountain View, Calif., manufacturer, started training lots of docs to perform the procedure in their offices. The firm recently launched its first big advertising campaign. Rival company Hologic hopes to gain FDA approval in 2009 for Adiana, a soft silicone polymer similarly inserted to seal off the Fallopian tubes...
...police investigation into the calamity points more to a foul-up than foul play. Viennese police say they're not probing the possibility of attempted murder; press reports had speculated a "jealous rival" could have had a hand in Hoevels' injury. Instead, investigators are focusing on possible negligence within the props department of Hoevels' Thalia Theater ensemble. According to local media, the company picked up the knife in Vienna to replace one brought from their Hamburg base that was then found to be defective. One possibility: that props staff forgot to blunt that new blade, which, police say, still...