Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course in those days, as in Reagan's, the goal of government-directed space research was to outdo the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union by trumping their achievements with more impressive ones of our own. Today I can open my morning newspaper and read a story about the American space shuttle executing a daring rendezvous with the Russian space station, Mir. Imagine that: the East and West working together in space for a change, instead of racing against each other. Contrary to popular belief, the planned international Space Station Freedom is not "NASA's space station;" it belongs...
...first major chunk of the Gingrichian program to pass both houses of Congress. Clinton, for his part, announced that he was reducing 271 mostly unilateral federal programs to 27 ``performance partnerships'' with the Governors. Of Clinton's proposal, Engler said it was a good start. He knew Congress would outdo that...
...training for welfare recipients, they are willing to increase the bloated Pentagon budget. Nevertheless, they are opposed to foreign intervention, even on a small scale such as the action in Haiti. President Clinton has even proposed a $25 billion increase for the military, but Republicans are anxious to outdo...
...NEWS OF REAGAN'S CONTRACTING Alzheimer's disease came as no news at all to this American expatriate. That this actor President had lost the plot was one of the reasons for my emigration. I can see American lawyers trying to outdo one another with the Reagan defense: My client is not guilty, your honor, because he forgets things and therefore cannot be held responsible for his actions. I've often wondered how revisionist historians would rewrite the Reagan years, and now I know...
...true that, particularly in the first movement of the Schumann, the players plant huge accents and unlikely crescendos in their parts, as though trying to outdo each other. I agree that Ax's playing casts the largest shadow on these recordings. His clear and often too-powerful playing in the Schumann starkly highlights the roughshod scampering of Laredo and Stern. Laredo's most credible playing comes in the third movement, though his rich solo must contend with Stern's wavering obbligato...