Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...government purchased a 30-second commercial for half price during the Super Bowl and will rival major advertisers like McDonald's and Burger King in ad volume for March and April, Clinkenbeard says...
...away. "We each have our own experts," he said mildly. "I dispute the cost figure that Al has used." Gore went into Dartmouth with his polls showing him 11 points behind in New Hampshire; after a week of savaging Bradley's health-care plan, he had cut his rival's lead to 3 points...
...history, Airbus surpassed Boeing in confirmed orders, 476 (worth $30.5 billion) to 391 ($28.3 billion). In the first two months of this year, Airbus had 29 firm orders. But those figures scant Airbus' achievement, since five years ago Boeing boasted four times as many orders as its brash European rival. "I doubt if anyone else in the world could have pulled off what John and his team have done," says an admiring Airbus official...
...Last fall the company nearly saw its $484 million investment in Russian oil giant Sidanko all but disappear in a maze of Russian corporate shenanigans. In a complex scheme with a brutishly simple result, Sidanko's most prodigious subsidiary was declared bankrupt and sold for a song to a rival, the Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK). BP Amoco vehemently objected and in late December reached a tentative settlement with TNK. But the Sidanko affair is still cited in expatriate business circles as a symbol of the hurdles foreigners face in Russia...
Fast-forward 10 years. Suppose the same boy, now 16, kills a member of a rival gang. On his way home, he picks up a pizza and rents a video--a comedy. He enjoys a few yuks and then turns in early. This segue from mayhem to amusement would be taken as proof of his brutality. A jury would find it easier to give him a stiff sentence than if he had gone home and paced the floor, racked by remorse...