Word: vies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with dust but not too quick about doing something about it. The Americans? Said one experienced au pair hand last week: "They'll have to learn to get along with one bath a week without shrieks of complaint, mend their own clothes and not throw them away; la vie, after all, n'est pas si facile...
Tank Trouble. The arms makers sell chiefly to their own governments, but most of them also vie with each other for NATO contracts and for sales to nations-such as Greece, Portugal and Norway-that do not have their own major armaments industries. Britain does a good business in selling arms on the Continent and around the world. From 1960 to 1963, the French did well in foreign sales, thanks largely to the popularity of their light tanks and the Mystère II interceptor jet. West Germany still relies heavily on arms purchases from...
...works. He bequeathed 1,000 of them to a "study museum" in Ajaccio. The museum is still too small to show more than a fourth of the collection at a time, and there is no accurate catalogue for the Botticellis, Bellinis and Lorenzo di Credis that vie for wall space. Nevertheless it is, indirectly, the best thing Napoleon ever did for Corsica...
...well as an Olympic Village replete with trees and ornamental shrubs. In the Olympic Cafeteria, 150 separate menus will provide 520,000 lunches, suppers and breakfasts of champions. Dominating the Olympic Tokyo is Architect Kenzo Tange's shell-shaped National Gymnasium complex, where swimmers and basketball players will vie, while the first judo competition in Olympic history will be conducted beneath the bat-winged roof of the Budokan Hall. Last week teams from 96 nations were forming for the Tokyo Games, and sports buffs the world over prepared to descend on the city by sea and air. At least...
...Japanese firms to introduce a competitive series of "Rapid" cartridge cameras. About half a million Rapids-which are priced roughly in line with Kodak's less expensive models-were sold in Europe during the first ten weeks they were on sale. The two new camera lines already vie with each other in West German show windows...