Word: outbidding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's most significant story in Foreign News came in scattered pieces. Gaitskell, Mollet and Ollenhauer-the big names of Europe's three major socialist parties-all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader...
...next round of allotments will certainly become a grand farce. One president of a small college threatened last week to ask for $.5 million in order to get what he needs. Realizing that the funds it receives will be mathematically proportionate to its request, each college will attempt to outbid the others. The request system will cease to be merely unfair; it will become absurd...
Beware the Limitation. The new French African leaders seem far from ready to forfeit their ties with France to answer the siren call either of Cairo, Moscow, or Accra. And though Nkrumah and Nasser make friendly noises, these two ambitious strongmen are plainly trying to outbid each other. Nasser's "Quit Africa Day" turned out to be something of a flop in Cairo. In Accra, his delegation, though finally reduced from 30 to eleven, was out to grab as much of the spotlight from Nkrumah as it could...
...even the inflated art market or the evening's glamour prepared the assembled company for the price fetched by Cézanne's Boy in Red Vest. After the last significant lift of an eyebrow and meaningful tug at a vest. Carstairs Gallery's Keller had outbid all others by offering a fabulous $616,000. It was the highest price ever paid at auction for any painting (previous auction high: $360,000 paid for Thomas Gainsborough's Harvest Wagon in Manhattan...
...educational effort slovenly. Our schools are overcrowded, understaffed and ill-equipped." Some statistics: by 1969 there will be 50% to 70% more high-school students than present schools can accommodate; by 1975 college enrollments will be doubled or tripled. The need for teachers is enormous; yet industries and Government outbid the universities for graduates who might become college teachers. And all too often programs to train precollege teachers are so "rigid, formalistic and shallow" that they "drive away able minds as fast as they are recruited...