Word: one-upmanship
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John Danforth, former Missouri Senator, said that U.S. politics is plagued by "one-upmanship" and a tendency by both sides to appeal to their loyal and often uncompromising flanks, rather than the political middle. The sessions in Oklahoma were "intended to be a catalyst for people in the center of American politics who believed that they had been marginalized," said Danforth, a Republican. The bipartisan group urged candidates in a statement to "go beyond tokenism to appoint a truly bipartisan cabinet with critical posts held by the most qualified people regardless of their political affiliation...
Frigid temperatures, college-football bowl games, post-New Year's Eve lethargy--the Iowa caucuses have a lot going against them this election cycle. Still, despite months of electoral-calendar one-upmanship, the Hawkeye State held onto its status as the nation's first presidential matchup by moving its caucuses from Jan. 14 to Jan. 3. The Iowa contests first achieved national prominence in 1972 and '76. Since then, they have provided momentum to many a trailing candidate while halting the progress of more than a few presumed front runners...
...Kingsley Amis drinking in London's Fleet Street, or Aldous Huxley watching Gandhi make a speech in India, or Naipaul discussing the Greek playwright Menander with former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan) but names are all that most of them remain - two-dimensional also-rans in Naipaul's literary one-upmanship. The laughing, exuberant and fleshed-out characters that were such a feature of his earlier work have got up from the table, it seems, leaving the old curmudgeon talking to himself...
...first marker in the ultraluxe game. Perched on its own man-made island and featuring a helipad and underwater restaurant, this opulent glass palace, which opened in 1999, has 1,800-sq.-ft. (170 sq m) rooms that start at $1,000 a night. Now it's time for one-upmanship, as hoteliers and entrepreneurs race to build ever more exotic getaways that transcend mere luxury stock. Investors have greenlighted more than 30 other super-high-end projects in the past three years, according to lodging consultant Bjorn Hanson of PriceWaterhouse Coopers. The challenge? "It's about creating a luxury...
...unfortunate side to the evangelical movement in Korea is increased competition. Churches number in the tens of thousands here, and are competing so intensely for members that pastors feel pressured to engage in a kind of one-upmanship: sending congregants on as many overseas missions as possible. New markets and riskier missions tend to garner more publicity, which until now has translated into more kudos and ultimately more money for the pastor and the church...