Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Gore focused criticism on the presumptive Republican nominee, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, but never mentioned his Democratic rival, former Sen. Bill Bradley...
...almost hear the sound track beginning to play. "Losing South Carolina is like a day at the beach." When he walked out of the room, McCain was on the balls of his feet. "He's not going to take it away from me like this," said McCain about his rival. "Not like this." It's that kind of moment--corny, a little histrionic--that makes one want to say, "C'mon, guys, save it for the screenplay...
Auction houses charge two commissions on sales--one from the buyer, the other from the seller. It's perfectly legal to drop or raise your prices after a rival does; gas stations facing off across an intersection do it all the time. What's illegal is for two or more rivals to form a "cartel" by agreeing in advance to fix a price. One of the signs that this may be happening is a close, copycat pattern of changes--and this, the Justice Department claims, is what has been happening for years between Sotheby's and Christie...
Perez has recounted a stunning collection of illegal acts, many as bizarre as they are disturbing. He told of one officer whose car tires were slashed. The cop and his partner tracked down the gang member they believed was responsible and dropped him--naked--in a rival gang's turf. Perez tells of another CRASH officer who shot a suspect repeatedly with a beanbag shotgun--a nonlethal weapon used to knock suspects to the ground...
...chairman of Mirage Resorts, whose lavish spending on casinos like the $1.6 billion Bellagio has made Mirage about as popular as snake eyes with investors on Wall Street. The Kirk is for Kerkorian, 82, the reclusive Beverly Hills billionaire with a knack for doubling his bets and winning. The rival moguls took center stage when Kerkorian's MGM Grand bid $17 a share, or $3.4 billion, for Mirage, which only the day before had been trad- ing at $10 a share and change...