Word: rivals
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...married to another man. After she received a divorce, she married Jackson; however, they found out some time later that the certificate of divorce was not legal, and therefore their marriage was invalid. John Quincy Adams, Jackson's opponent, took full advantage of this circumstance to denounce his rival as a man who lived with an adulteress. Some thought these discourses intruded too much into the personal life of Jackson. But many denounced Jackson for his seeming immorality...
...Clinton Administration expressed surprise only at the timing. They, like many of their Russian counterparts, had viewed Lebed's ouster as only a matter of time: his ambition was too big to coexist with Yeltsin's, they thought. And Yeltsin, the officials added, was not one to tolerate a rival center of power in his administration. U.S. intelligence analysts, however, found no credible evidence that Lebed had been trying to incite a mutiny. And they, like the Russian media, noted that the increased security measures announced by Kulikov after his public allegations against Lebed never materialized...
Rudenstine, in response to a question from the Yale Daily News, also said he would speak kindly of Harvard and Princeton's rival in New Haven...
Wrangham suggested that lethal raiding might be related to hunting. In other words, nature selects in favor of the violent chimpanzee because that animal would be a more successful hunter. It might be possible, then, to substitute a rival of the same species for prey in the mind of the chimpanzee...
...intimate lives of the Superpowerful Ones, investigates the habits of the psychologically disturbed and gives us a devilish retelling of that noble, classic love story, "The Gift of the Magi." You could even argue that this is a learning experience, a combination of sex and information that could even rival the notorious stacks of Widener...