Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With rival Dartmouth in town for Head of the Charles weekend, the Crimson edge out the Green, 6-5, on Brian Kotz's last-minute field goal...
...announced earlier this year that they would publish a series of tough articles on the city's problems during Mayor Tom Bradley's campaign for a fifth term, the paper's reporters were barred from the mayor's office. But that did not stop them from scooping their powerful rival, the Los Angeles Times, by printing damaging reports about Bradley's finances just three weeks before the election. Last week, however, Herald Examiner staffers faced a far more formidable lockout: the Hearst Corp., unable to find a buyer for the unprofitable daily, announced that it would shut the paper...
...Japanese have now surpassed the Dutch as the second greatest foreign holders of U.S. property. The British are No. 1, yet Japanese investments create the largest public stir, in part because Japan is the greater economic rival -- and in part because some racially insensitive Americans apply different standards to European and Asian investment. Japanese direct investment in U.S. companies and real estate increased from $35.2 billion in 1987 to $53.4 billion last year, a gain of 52%. British investment climbed from $79.7 billion to $101.9 billion over the same period, for a 27.9% increase...
...smugglers have proved so flexible. When federal agents cracked down on shipments through South Florida, traffickers started routing shipments through the porous Mexican border. At the same time, the smuggling industry has plenty of competition. When Colombia's campaign against the Medellin cartel hampered that group's operations, the rival Cali-based group filled the vacuum...
Forget Cornell. SLU is fast becoming Harvard'snewest ECAC rival. This year, it's no different...