Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investor agreed to underwrite the city's debt. The bank turned down these offers. Kucinich charges that at a private meeting he likens to a "street mugging," the chairman of Cleveland Trust made extension of credit conditional on the sale of the city-owned electric company to its private competitor. According to the mayor, the proposed sale called for the private company to pay the city about one third of the electric system's real value, and to spread payments over a 30-year period without interest. Kucinich refused, and Cleveland Trust declined to roll over the loan...
...field Elaine is a ferocious competitor. She is the most tenacious and aggressive forward on the team when it comes to tackling back once we have lost possession," MacAusland says...
...thing about Mike," he continued, "is that he's a competitor. I know that. He's a winner. I just wish he had a little more experience...
Logan is a brand new addition to the team. One of the top high school distance runners in the country last year, he is already a mature competitor, apparently not prone to freshman jitters...
...doubles team of Navratilova and Bill Scanlon, a young, scruffy competitor with a hot topspin forehand, had blown a big lead and trailed a pair of unknowns in the deciding set. The DC-9's and the 727's continued to thunder overhead, a loudspeaker bellowed incessantly ("The front exit is the ohnly exit available: please leave immediately"), and now they had run out of tennis balls. It was the end of a long day at U.S. Open. How dare they run out of balls on the two-time defending Wimbledon champion...