Word: outdo
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Middle East. With an eye to New York's large Jewish vote, each candidate has been trying to outdo the other in proclaiming undying fealty to Israel. Hart was quicker to demand the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon, although how much quicker remains a matter of dispute. Their greatest and most revealing differences in the Middle East come over Persian Gulf oil. Mondale says he would be willing to commit U.S. ground troops to keep it flowing; Hart says he would not. At the debate, Mondale said that the U.S. must "make certain that the American interest in stability...
...blatantly but effectively-is the desire of many legislators to court votes from the Jewish electorate, which favors the move almost unanimously as a symbolic show of U.S. support for Israel. Both Walter Mondale and Gary Hart demonstrated as much in New York, where they sought to outdo each other in supporting the idea while campaigning for the large Jewish vote in that state's primary. In fact, the embassy question is generating much more heat in the U.S. than in Israel, where it is not a prominent political concern at the moment. Israeli leaders are somewhat bemused...
...matter how fierce or ingenious their attempts to outdo one another, American cigarette makers have historically had one thing in common: 20 smokes to a pack. But last week even that came unwrapped. In smoke shops and supermarkets in 33 states, Century cigarettes from R.J. Reynolds (1982 total sales: $10.9 billion) made their debut with 25 to the pack and 225 cigarettes to the nine-pack carton. Century still costs about the same as other brands. Reynolds ads made that point clear: "New Century-taste that delivers in the moneysaving 25 pack...
Just a few years ago. McCurdy challenged team captain Thad McNulty to a pull-up duel, claiming that he could outdo McNulty by one The captain managed 14 pull ups, but true to his word, McCurdy did 15 Humiliated in defeat, McNulty trained for an entire week, and in a rematch he upped his total by five, but once again the team's mentor beat him by one Still determined to beat his cocky coach. McNulty tried again and did 29, more than doubling his first effort. Of course, McCurdy...
...Brown and Stanford outdo Harvard in the qualify of undergraduate life God knows there are more than a few ways in which they might Maybe the faculties of those two colleges have office hours. Maybe student at Brown and Stanford is free from the ugly elitism of finals clubs. Maybe the fine and performing arts are supported there in a more than perfunctory...