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It grows to rival Notting Hill as a celebration of black culture.

When George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his friendship with 1960s radical and 1970s fugitive Bill Ayers, he set up a controversy that Hillary and Bill Clinton surely hope grows to rival that over the rants of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Huge satellite towns such as Scandicci have grown to rival the centre of Florence itself.

Since the 1970s, however, the city's service sector has grown to rival the manufacturing sector.

The companies hope this strategy will give them added leverage in the market for tablets and smartphones, which is growing to rival the market for personal computers.

In size, budget and influence, it never grew to rival the security council, and often both agencies engaged in classic Washington turf battles.

By 946 the seat of the caliphate was fully established on the east bank, and Ruṣāfah grew to rival the Round City.

In 1981, after hunger strikes in which 10 republican prisoners died (7 were IRA members), the political aspect of the struggle grew to rival the military one, and Sinn Féin began to play a more prominent role.

At the Y Combinator event, Mr. Graham raised the question of the sustainability of New York's future as a hotbed of technology innovation and whether the city could ever grow to rival Silicon Valley.

Less than a year later, most major PC manufacturers had introduced netbook models, and sales of netbooks had grown to rival those of other portable electronic devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

TeraGrid, the world's largest and fastest distributed infrastructure for general scientific research, also maintains a network link with DEISA, a European supercomputing network that has grown to rival the American network in speed and storage capacity.