Word: vies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because its subscriptions have been stagnant at 1.1 million this year while AOL's have soared from 500,000 to over 1 million and CompuServe's have grown from 1.5 million to 2.3 million. Expect the war to benefit you even more in coming months, as the online services vie to hold onto their customers and do everything they can to upstage their competitors...
That exchange about expresses the aura that surrounds Glyndebourne, one of the world's finest music festivals. The very drizzle is sacred. Young singers vie for a place in the chorus. Never mind that the time commitment is extravagant and the pay meager. To perform on this stage is to be recognized as an artist, not just another pair of vocal cords...
Together with small tankers operating out of Venezuela and Panama, which do not observe the embargo, the armada of smugglers have managed to deliver so much contraband fuel that hucksters have set up a bustling business along "gasoline alley" in Port-au-Prince. Out-of-work vendors vie frantically for customers among the wealthy in Land Rovers. Businessmen can even get gas delivered to their door...
Five legislative committees vie to craft a historic medical bill...
...playoff rounds increase, who needs so many games? Why don't we follow the admirable example of basketball and hockey and let teams with losing records vie for the championships? They might as well add a clock while they're at it. But even all this failed to get me down. No, a much more basic experience has quelled my spring fever...