Word: upmanship
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...asked the White House to provide Clinton with government aircraft and the use of Blair House. But Christopher found the costs prohibitive and opted instead for a chartered plane and suites in the Hay-Adams hotel. A wounded Marlin Fitzwater pronounced himself offended by the postgame round of one-upmanship. But when it turned out that the cost of extra security for the hotel made the arrangement a financial wash, the old order and the new declared a truce over who was more perk averse. "If they were offended," said Clinton spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers, "we apologize...
Small wonder French citizens find the heated U.S. campaign rhetoric about "family values" quaintly irrelevant. While Democrats and Republicans play , their game of dare-to-care one-upmanship, the French look upon the benefits that attend citizens from cradle to grave as inalienable rights. Why has France -- and many other West European countries -- long since reached a consensus about government's obligation to family while Americans continue to argue across party lines? While both cultures regard the family as a precious and fragile unit that requires governmental attention and care, historical and ideological factors make the terms of that obligation...
Soviet and American diplomats were back at it last week, trying to make an agreement out of the disarmament bombshells that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev had just finished lobbing at each other. The latest round of benevolent one-upmanship is intended to diminish the danger of war, save money both countries need for domestic spending and set a good example for the rest of the world...
...even after Shamir agreed to take part in the talks, he insisted that Baker travel to Israel to get the word. That was another example of what some diplomats see as the one-upmanship that the two men have been engaging in since the Bush Administration began reviving the peace process in March. Upon arriving in Jerusalem, the Secretary spent 90 minutes huddled with Shamir before they announced at a joint press conference that Arab-Israeli talks would indeed convene. Peace in the Middle East, said Baker, was "no longer simply a dream...
...aura of war followed Bush all last week, visibly enhancing his stature. More than 3,500 people jammed the Washington Hilton for the national prayer breakfast that Bush attended. The speakers engaged in a kind of nervous one- upmanship in tribute to God and the G.I. At the Washington Press Club Foundation's big dinner, which Bush did not attend, almost no one dared rib the President. One of the few good laughs of the night came from humorist Dave Barry who, professing evenhandedness after some gibes aimed at White House chief of staff John Sununu, said, "I would...