Word: outdo
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...When TFing, especially at a place like Harvard, you always get one or two kids in your section who are very bright and try to outdo...
...Definitive Beat” is anything but. Clearly an attempt to outdo Leftfield at its own game, it fails, and miserably at that. While Leftfield’s pulsating “Phat Planet” is a listenable, likable tune suffused with kinetic joy and drenched in brilliant shades of electronic tones, Mirwais’ own entry resembles nothing so much as a broken record, mindlessly churning out the same garbage ad nauseam. The vital energy is lacking, leaving nothing behind but a sparse wasteland of broken notes...
FOILED MAY 13, 1999 Port Huron, Mich. Their plan, police said, was to outdo Columbine perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold by arming themselves, forcing the principal of Holland Woods Middle School to call an assembly and then killing teachers, classmates and themselves. Jedaiah (David) Zinzo and Justin Schnepp, both 14, made a list of 154 targets, stole a building plan from the school custodian's office and plotted to use one gun to steal more. Classmates caught wind of the plot and reported it to the assistant principal. Zinzo and Schnepp were sentenced to four years' probation...
...know things are very bad when a top U.S. government official admits failure. Even before he has taken the job. Last month, while still just a nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Norm Mineta was already warning airline passengers that this summer would outdo even the terrible summer of 2000 for awfulness. "I need to be very candid with you," he told a Senate committee. "We are likely to have similar--or worse--delay problems this year as well. We simply have an air-traffic-control system that has not been able to keep pace with rapidly rising demand...
Patrick's debut is stronger--he's a commanding figure, and the premiere gets back to the meat of the show's mythology--but the real test will come when Doggett and Scully work side by side. Of course, neither man can be expected to outdo his precursor, but we're not expecting Olivier. We'll settle for no more Olivers. --With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles