Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth luxury vacation in less than two months. This came after a year in which, among many other things, she also came under attack for meddling in politics, ordering an assault on a photographer and forcing the removal of her sons' beloved governess, who just happened to be her rival for their affection. And this "very British" princess was saying that she loved being abroad more than being in Britain. Diana has been called the lonely princess. But one must stop to wonder at the discrepancy between her popular image and the fact that all her life she could never...
However, Keeler said she was very excited about the prospect of this tournament both as an individual competition and also as a competition between rival schools, adding that she hoped Harvard students could "kick some Yale ass" on college Jeopardy! online...
...that the MCI acquisition is by any means a done deal. MCI management, led by chairman Bert Roberts, had not been heard from as of the end of last week. MCI shareholders will get a chance to vote on the rival offers, and BT could choose to raise its bid, although it can ill afford a bidding war. BT, whose shareholders were unhappy with the MCI deal, may simply decide to walk away. That would leave the company's global strategy adrift but provide a nice $1.3 billion profit on its MCI investment. "The player who benefits most from WorldCom...
...Greene, to allow more frequent copulation. When Borneo's yellow-lipped sea- kraits breed, as many as half a dozen males may pile on a lone female. Copulation is usually brief but can last more than a day for Western diamondbacks (probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm for months, until some instinct tells the cold-blooded creatures that the temperature is right for fertilization. Like birds (close kin), most species are egg layers, though some give birth to fully formed young...
...That was the day we beat [rival] Pine Plains," she recalled, pulling out another picture, similarly posed with her own face at the center of a crowd of Harvard jersies. Her smile slowly fades...