Word: one-upmanship
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...winning edge. If Netscape let Web browsers look at pages from around the world, Microsoft would let users look at the same Web pages but from within familiar applications, such as Microsoft Word. If Navigator could play sound, Explorer would play CD-quality sound. It was the sort of one-upmanship that Gates had perfected in dozens of similar software fights. Although frequently second to market with a product, Microsoft always won by outfeaturing and outlasting its competitors...
...appeal. And size. And how! Four big productions will have opened by Memorial Day: EFX, the magic show Spellbound, a permanent edition of The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular and Splash II: The Voyage of a Lifetime! "In Las Vegas," says producer Jeff (Splash) Kutash, "it's always one-upmanship." For now Broadway is ancient history; Vegas is the musical theater of the coming millennium...
...medley -- composed of show tunes and popular chestnuts -- is divided so that the three men toss the melody back and forth, each singing part of every song. There is some mild one-upmanship: Domingo sustains a high note, it seems, for several bars; Pavarotti's eloquent eyebrows start working overtime. But the songs meld seamlessly, and that is the result of cooperative effort...
...initially asked the White House to provide Clinton with government aircraft and the use of Blair House. But Christopher found the costs prohibitive and opted instead for a chartered plane and suites in the Hay-Adams hotel. A wounded Marlin Fitzwater pronounced himself offended by the postgame round of one-upmanship. But when it turned out that the cost of extra security for the hotel made the arrangement a financial wash, the old order and the new declared a truce over who was more perk averse. "If they were offended," said Clinton spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers, "we apologize...
Small wonder French citizens find the heated U.S. campaign rhetoric about "family values" quaintly irrelevant. While Democrats and Republicans play , their game of dare-to-care one-upmanship, the French look upon the benefits that attend citizens from cradle to grave as inalienable rights. Why has France -- and many other West European countries -- long since reached a consensus about government's obligation to family while Americans continue to argue across party lines? While both cultures regard the family as a precious and fragile unit that requires governmental attention and care, historical and ideological factors make the terms of that obligation...