Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson editorial staff really managed to outdo itself on Monday, September 23 ("Presidential Race Offers No Choice"). Without so much as a glimmer of dissent, in its staff editorial it unanimously and unilaterally rejected the ideas of the Republican Party while complaining that Bill Clinton is insufficiently left-wing, and then amazingly lobbed the following stone at Bob Dole: "Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd...
ARTISTIC Vitali Scherbo of Belarus won six golds in Barcelona and will be a presence in Atlanta. For the women, Ukraine's world champion Lilia Podkopayeva, Russia's Svetlana Chorkina and America's Dominique Moceanu will try to outdo one another for all-around honors...
Lately the two men, Clinton and Dole, try to sound more and more like each other, and at times, each tries to outdo the other by being the first to embrace the radical ideas of the other party. For example, Bob Dole talks about allowing pro-choice activists to participate at the Republican Convention, while Bill Clinton, who championed the cause for gays in the military, suddenly voices his opposition to gay marriages, and embraces Republican ideas as they become prominent. The fact is that both sides are pandering to the voters, hoping that citizens will believe them long enough...
...Green hopes to outdo its last great season, 1988-89, when it finished second in the league with a 10-4 mark. To accomplish this feat, Dartmouth must record at least one win against Penn or Princeton at home...
...into their value. But more and more of you kept joining the welfare rolls, so we've decided to cap benefit levels once and for all with our new block grants. And we know that the states will probably begin their anxiously awaited "race to the bottom" (trying to outdo each other in cutting services for the poor), so expect your public assistance to shrivel...