Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They'll have to be. In the second game of the season, Harvard takes on its super-arch rival Brown, who defeated the Crimson 9-8 in the Eastern Championships qualifier after the teams split their previous two meetings...
Some 40,000 of Saddam Hussein's best-trained and most loyal soldiers took up positions late last week 12 miles south of the city of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and the center of a conflict between rival Kurd factions. And then, despite warnings from Washington, Saddam's forces rolled north toward Erbil. After heavy artillery pounded the city, the Iraqis quickly took control on Saturday. The Iraqi offensive was Saddam's boldest move since the end of the Gulf War five years ago, and set the stage for a new test of wills between Washington and Baghdad...
Under the umbrella of Western protection, two rival Kurd factions, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, began fighting two years ago over who would control the area. Last year the U.S. brokered a cease-fire between the groups, but that collapsed in late July...
...been accused of a crime and was not even mentioned when three rival companies agreed to settle price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...
...works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning 25 years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival...