Word: vies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ballot-casters like Montaine and Dawes are important in New Hampshire because in primary states where two candidates vie for the support of the state party organization, new electors can cast the deciding votes...
These companies are surviving, and thriving, on word of mouth. Since they can't afford huge advertising spreads in Vogue or prime real estate at big department stores, they vie for the attention of magazine editors, Hollywood stars and other buzzmakers. Drew Barrymore probably did more for Hard Candy's Glitter Eye by wearing it to the 1998 Oscars than Elizabeth Hurley has ever done for Estee Lauder...
...back to the point where she was at in secondary school, she could vie for a league title," Haggerty said...
...Early on Saturday morning, Sherwood "Woody" McClelland '00 will be duking it out with Yale already--on the chess board. McClelland, the president of the Harvard Chess Club, and accredited "Life Master," will lead the Crimson as they vie for their eighth straight victory in as many years in The Chess Match. The match was first staged in 1909 and held discontinuously until 1986, at which point the teams deemed the rivalry worth renewing on an annual basis...
...scholars of business, law and the social sciences--among other fields--the months leading up to the presidential elections can be busy indeed as opportunities to participate in the country's public life vie with lectures to give and papers to grade...