Word: vies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while opposing cuts in the social programs that constitute such spending, a good portion of the voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would not take ten years of struggle to amend the Clean...
Launched by Murdoch in 1974, the Star was one of his first U.S. successes. The Star will operate separately from its new sister publication. So on the surface at least the tussling tabs will still vie for the dirt on wayward celebrities and errant aliens...
...West Germany raised its interest rates to battle inflation. The Bundesbank acted out of concern about the high costs of monetary union with East Germany, but the effects of its move were soon felt in Tokyo as well as in every other financial capital. Since Japan's government bonds vie with West German securities for the funds of global investors, Japan was eventually forced to increase its own interest rates to compete...
...convenience store bakery chain, which already operates a restaurant at the heart of the Square in Holyoke Center, will open a 2000-sq.-ft. Au Bon Pain Express unit about five blocks east in a space formerly occupied by the Vie de France cafe, a top executive said...
Managers of Vie de France, which quit business last fall, said in December that building owners Dupree Associates planned to hike rents more than 50 percent to more than $30 per square foot. A neighboring lease holder in the building, the Penguin Bookshop, also quit business that month...