John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee and Obama's rival in the general election.
Anheuser-Busch's rival Miller was growing aggressively, its profits were slipping and its stock price was sagging.
's Crestor has finally won a blow against Pfizer 's rival Lipitor, the world's best-selling pill.
Thailand's rival red and yellow mobs disagree about democracy, but both want a fair political system.
Alex Neil, Mr Swinney's rival for the leadership, was horrified, and so were other traditionalists.
But Noble quit to join Capital's rival, Heart FM, claiming their partnership off-air was less light-hearted.
COPEI's rival, Accion Democratica, the country's oldest and largest party, risks the same fate.
And it is unlikely to further the cause of a lasting peace with Armenia's rival, Azerbaijan.
Another tech company the M100 decided to move into last week: SanDisk's rival, disk-drive giant Seagate.
Danone's rival product, Actimel, launched with a more aggressive marketing push, is doing much better.
Yet Mr Hassan's rival account of events gets at least as much of a hearing in India.
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He later extended the good wishes to Mr Nesbitt's rival, John McCallister, saying, "May the best man win".
The Irish government nationalised AIB's rival Anglo Irish Bank in January this year after concerns it could collapse.
Ms Bock's rival for the district's seat, Elihu Harris, Oakland's former mayor, was assumed to be a shoo-in.
With her revolutionary spirit still strong, she springs Charles Taylor, Doe's rival Liberian renegade, from jail in Massachusetts.
But after tribal marshals one of whom was Mr Byrd's rival, Mr Ragsdale served the warrant, Mr Byrd fired them.
Last week, al-Maliki appealed to his country's rival political and ethnic factions to band together and stop the violence.
The numbers have triggered claims from GM's rival Volkswagen that it was in fact the world's biggest vehicle maker.
During the unrest, people from northern Ivory Coast were seen as supporters of Mr Gbagbo's rival, President Alassane Ouattara.
While running terrorist training camps in Afghanistan ten years ago, Mr Zarqawi was Mr bin Laden's rival of sorts.
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This perhaps explains why Siena, Florence's rival in many ways, has been treated as an also-ran of art history.
The players refused to adhere to demands from the board that they should not endorse products from a sponsor's rival.
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This different version could be seen, for instance, in the breathlessly enthusiastic coverage of the election by al-Jazeera's rival, al-Arabiya.
News of Medtronic's rival patents broke when Cardio was in a late round of financing-and its lead investor backed out.
News of Medtronic's rival patents broke when Cardio was in a late round of financing--and its lead investor backed out.
Last week, Zimbabwe's rival political leaders reached a deal over a new constitution, removing a key obstacle to holding elections.
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In late 2002, Microsoft approached IBM about making the chip for Microsoft's rival game console, the (as yet unnamed) Xbox 360.
Less than five years after the Royal Oak appeared, Genta supplied a design to Audemars Piguet's rival watch house, Patek Philippe.
Mervyn Davies, who had been chairman of Standard Chartered, HSBC's rival in Asia, had a similar job under the previous government.
That could benefit Gore's rival, GOP presidential hopeful George W. Bush, in a state considered a must-win for the vice president.
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