Word: rivalling
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...decade later, the only member of that triumvirate still around to witness the country's seemingly overnight acceptance of the Internet as a legitimate medium was Dan Rather, and it's doubtful that even his staying power can rival that of the web. Those who originally dragged their feet are now jumping on to the information superhighway, eager to catch up (and squabbling over the few intelligible site addresses that remain...
...crucial weekend for Harvard continues Saturday against Colgate (15-6-0, 8-3-0) and concludes Monday at the Fleet Center in a Beanpot contest with cross-town rival No.4 Boston University...
...only thing that beats embarrassing an Ivy League foe is when that opponent is Princeton or, even better, arch-rival Yale...
...communist Russian leaders from Yeltsin on have spoken in a different voice to Western audiences than they use at home - after all, Moscow's new security doctrine, which Putin signed off on only three weeks ago, defined the U.S. not as Russia's partner, but as its primary strategic rival. Analysts have likened Putin to former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet - who conducted free-market economic reforms under an iron-fisted political regime - and even to Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who ruled the Soviet Union in the early '80s and pressed for modernization of the economy while maintaining...
Berry notes that at Harvard, most students view Yale as the primary rival institution. On the West Coast, she says, students are talking about Stanford, not Yale...