Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case you weren't aware, our rival's 10-day Thanksgiving break is marred by the fact that its finals come almost immediately afterwards. Many went back to school early in order to work. We, on the other hand, were able to spend America's best secular holiday largely work-free. We can always give thanks for that...
...makes good on her promise. And Greene makes good on the theme that dominated his best work: "the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God." Maurice, of course, is outraged by Sarah's disappearance--and sets a private detective on her. He's looking for an earthly explanation--a rival lover--not an unearthly one, for Sarah's defection. For her part, Sarah remains unsure what has happened to her. Was her prayer answered? Or was Maurice merely knocked out by the explosion...
...they were ready to consider it, and they put out feelers to a venture-capital firm. The financiers offered an introduction to one of their client companies. That turned out to be Personify--somewhat to the shock of Anubis, which had been studying Personify as a potential chief rival. Shana'a and Desai quickly concluded that the companies were an even better fit as partners...
Shaun Fernando, a junior at Texas A&M University, embarked this fall on a rite of passage that began in 1909. Alongside 5,000 of his classmates, he helped construct a massive tower of wood that would be torched before the Thanksgiving-week football game against rival University of Texas. In October, Fernando pitched in for "the Cut," early-morning trips to nearby fields to fell some 5,000 oaks. Afterward students broke ground on the edifice, pounding two thick pine trunks end on end 10 ft. into the earth to serve as a central support. Last week came...
...clear how many adults were still around at the late hour of the accident. Then there are questions about whether the work site was sufficiently regulated in the first place. Though at 55 ft. tall and a reported 2,700 tons, the finished tower could rival an apartment house, no building permit was required...