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...universities vie to attract top-notch scholars, professors are starting to ask universities to provide packages that can make picking up and moving worthwhile--jobs for a spouse, housing, even help finding schooling for their children...
Harvard could possibly meet the Huskies in the ECAC playoffs and might even vie for the national title against its cross-town rival...
...March. If Russia is successful in passing power from its first democratically elected President to its second, then the country's direction will be in the hands of a new elected President and Duma, as well as the thousands of elected officials who now run local governments. Multiple parties vie for power through the ballot box. There are some 65,000 nongovernmental organizations and approximately 900,000 private businesses where there were none a decade ago. A pluralist political system and civil society, competing in the world markets and plugged into the Internet, have emerged from a totalitarian monolith that...
...free world include an apologist for Adolf Hitler; a professional wrestler who changed his name from the Body to the Mind; and a real estate magnate at once so ridiculous and self-confident that he is oddly mesmerizing. Indeed, watching the entire crop of Reform Party candidates vie for position is like watching dogs copulate in a public square: it's not pleasant, but you can't take your eyes off them...
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...