21.   By defeating the Dallas Cowboys the next week, the Giants proved they could handle success by holding off a bitter rival.

22.   Cadence and Mentor are bitter rivals in the market for the electronic automated design software used to fashion new computer chips.

23.   Close in the standings, but not in life, because they are bitter rivals who rarely exchange pleasantries.

24.   Draskovic is a bitter rival of Zoran Djindjic, the president of the Democratic Party and a leader of the Alliance.

25.   Eastman Kodak Co. pulled ahead of Fuji Photo Film Co., in the briefing book battle between the two bitter rivals over access to the film market in Japan.

26.   Four years ago he had to contend with a cadre of aides who had risen in Congress with a bitter rival, Rep. Dick Gephardt.

27.   Gangemi was also backed by Arthur Bramwell, the Brooklyn Republican chairman, who has been a bitter rival of DiCarlo for the party leadership position.

28.   Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay were bitter rivals for control of the liberal wing of the Republican Party.

29.   He acknowledged Lotus, of Cambridge, Mass., is concerned that Microsoft, its bitter rival, is paying more attention to a market it dominates.

30.   His friend and later bitter rival Jean-Paul Sartre seems, in retrospect, a trendy poseur discredited by his abject failure to repudiate left-wing totalitarianism.