11.   The suit accused its rival of unfairly controlling the beverages served by restaurants and other businesses.

12.   Was he laughed out of college football when he accused a rival of punting helium-filled footballs?

13.   Orthodox church officials accuse rivals of sewing confusion among their flock, and the believers who leave the faith of less-than-pure motives.

14.   Ozawa accuses his rival of being slow to carry out badly needed reforms in Japan, such as cutting bureaucratic waste to make the economy more productive.

15.   Plavsic accuses rivals of threatening her life.

16.   Al Gore accused rival George W. Bush of neglecting health care as both stumped against a backdrop of growing international tensions that threatened to divert attention from the race.

17.   An Iraqi Kurdish group has accused its rival of seizing the Parliament building by force in the latest escalation of their civil war.

18.   An African National Congress leader on Monday accused a rival of plotting to kill him in an ugly twist to their long-running feud.

19.   Armenian officials accused bitter rival Azerbaijan on Thursday of a weapons buildup far beyond the limits set under the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe.

20.   Azerbaijan accused its rival Armenia on Wednesday of running a dangerous nuclear power plant and of seeking to produce nuclear weapons, and demanded that the plant be closed.