Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collector for the Federal Government." The long-distance companies have already begun collecting the surcharge from their business customers, adding as much as 5% to their bills. In July, they warn, they'll place a line-item charge on residential users as well. Phone companies, which are trying to outdo one another by offering service for pennies a minute, claim the surcharge is the only way they can keep their rates competitive. But the FCC argues that in exchange for picking up the tab to wire these institutions, it has lowered other fees the long-distance companies pay. The commission...
Cinematic homages abound in the new Godzilla. There are obvious ones to King Kong (with Broderick as the Fay Wray equivalent); then there is the constant damp a la Blade Runner and Alien; an extended attempt to outdo the Jurassic Park raptors; even a wink at the Coneheads ("Where'd you find that guy?" "He's from France"). Critical reaction at early screenings has been mixed. But for a surefire blockbuster like this, reviewers be damned! The film even taunts the critics with a brazen in-joke: the mayor of New York City is a hothead named Ebert, whose campaign...
...such success obtained at a school with worse athletics than any Ivy League university? Through the fraternities running the events. All of them flew their Greek letters above their post, and each tried to outdo the others so their station would be the most popular. Since the social life at my friends' school revolves around these fraternities, the event was both fun and well-attended...
...tune of the Harvard Band's rendition of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," Weaver rode down Mass. Ave., accompanied by assorted College dance and comedy groups, each striving to outdo each other in flamboyance...
...common--the creation of dynamic sound and movement from strong bodies and everyday objects--but there's surprising variety among those numbers. One long-haired, bandanna-wearing cast member performs a high-powered solo number for two feet and two brooms; four ornery performers challenge each other to outdo one another in playing matchbooks like maracas. We get solo tap-dancing in heavy work boots, a symphony with drugstore-issue plastic bags and an impressive spotlight number in which a single dancer drums up a storm--using only his hands and his own body as instruments...