Word: vies
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Just a few hours after late night party crawlers crash in bed, the varying breeds of health nuts vie for first dibs at MAC machinery. “You have to be waiting outside the door for a chance to get one of the machines,” says Kennedy School student Gloriana Echeverria. On early February mornings, it’s everyone for themselves. “It started to get bad this month,” says staff member Lisa Tingley. “People are getting ready for spring break and trying to keep New Year?...
Applications to Harvard College surpassed 20,000 for the first time this year as record numbers of students vie with each other for spots in the class...
...back-channel trade creates problems for the majors nonetheless. Legitimate albums that make it through the red tape of Beijing's draconian import procedures must vie not only with pirated copies but also with saw-gash versions. "It means we're competing in essence on three fronts," says an executive for a major label, who declined to be named. Michael Jackson's 2001 Invincible album, for example, was imported to China through official channels, after Sony Music removed several tracks with explicit lyrics to appease the Ministry of Culture. After the album flopped, large quantities of unsold European copies turned...
...Sharpton, who announced on Saturday that he will vie for the presidency in 2004, decried both major political parties in a speech on Monday sponsored by Harvard Law School...
...Just about everything is for sale in China, and that includes art. Check out the new "art street" on Taikang Road, where contemporary studios and more traditional galleries vie for customers. The highlights include Deke Erh's Studio, which is run by a local photographer who has made it his mission to record hundreds of historic buildings before they are torn down, and the nearby Hands in Clay Pottery Studio, where local university students show off their designs. At most of these galleries, foreigners tend to be the main patrons but locals are beginning to show interest in China...