Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morton Downey Jr. has turned foul temper into a TV style. Geraldo Rivera continues to test the bounds of tawdry sensationalism. Phil, Oprah and Sally Jessy race to outdo one another in pursuit of the odd, the aberrant and the kinky. But something even more bizarre and audacious is about to appear on the talk-show scene. Make way for . . . the nice guys...
...wandered from it original mission, proclaimed by its motto "Serving the Academic Community Since 1882," and has tried to sell in the high-profit, highly competitive Boston retail market, for which the Coop is ill-suited. The Coop caters mainly to student needs and should not try to outdo department stores that serve a broader community. Students and faculty have funded the Coop's expensive ventures in the form of lower rebates...
...workaholic who puts in 14-hour days at the office, Baker exudes serenity. He is apt to crack jokes at his daily 7:30 a.m. staff meeting and has started a "most outrageous tie" competition, encouraging the driven and serious topsides of the campaign to try to outdo one another in flaunting garish neckwear...
...another case of the Big Story Syndrome. When the networks scramble to outdo one another, they seem to lose a measure of perspective. The CBS Evening News, in particular, turned into an odd cross between PM Magazine and The McLaughlin Group, with Rather strolling around Red Square with his temporary co-anchor, Charles Kuralt, and sitting down each evening to gab with three correspondents about the day's events. Adding to the prepackaged, magazine- show look: Rather, unlike Brokaw and Jennings, taped his segments several hours in advance, so he could be seen in the bright sunshine rather than...
...sound systems uniformly lousy. The more a show was shaped to fit a particular space and circumstances, the clumsier it looks shoehorned -- or stretched -- into a new configuration each week. But when it comes to performance pizazz, even second-string unknowns compete effectively with first-run counterparts -- and sometimes outdo them...