Word: vied
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Apart from convenience, the new shopping centers have become so big and diversified that they can vie on their own terms with city retail districts. Mondawmin, for example, has one of the first auto agencies to be included in a U.S. shopping center. At Seven Corners and Southdale, as in many of the new centers, two rival department stores face each other across the mall. Nearly all the big new shopping centers are planned so that specialty stores can compete, department by department, with the dominant department store in the same center. Between them, Mondawmin, Southdale and Seven Corners have...
...find when they get there? To spell out the economic facts of life, Paris' art monthly L'Oeil poked into studios and galleries, combed the artists' hangouts for facts and figures. Its findings, published this month, considerably deflate the traditional happy-go-lucky view of la vie en rose...
...competitive spirit runs strong among the young bloods at England's two great universities, Oxford and Cambridge. Year after year they vie with one another on the cricket field, in the debating hall, on the Thames. Three years ago, returning by air from a trip to Hong Kong, an enthusiastic young Cantabrigian named Adrian Cowell thought it would be nice if the ancient rivalry were carried into a new arena. "It would be real competition," he told a friend as he gazed down at the trackless wastes below the plane, "if we got an Oxford and a Cambridge team...
Under the New Economic Policy laid down in 1952, a conspicuous group of near-millionaires has arisen. A "Gold Coast" of California-style villas has sprung up north of Tel Aviv, where the wives of the new $50,000-a-year men vie in entertaining ambassadors or ministers at lavish dinner parties. Bustling crowds, looking like anything but refugees from East European ghettos in their crisp frocks or open-necked, short-sleeved shirts tucked into belted slacks, hurry through the streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, bent on marketing by day, on moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita...
...intervals between operations (three or four may be needed for each patient), the girls pass from one Quaker home to another for visits. They are in such demand that the families vie with each other for the chance to put them up. Said one host: "When the girls first moved in, we looked for signs of homesickness or some uneasiness in their attitude toward us. But they couldn't be more cheerful or more delightful as guests." The girls have picked up enough English to get by without an interpreter; they have adopted sleek Italian hairdos, colored ballerina slippers...