Word: upmanship
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...hectic, high-stakes atmosphere of what came to be called the lost weekend, the two leaders got into a bout of one-upmanship over who was willing to go further toward total nuclear disarmament. In the end, the meeting collapsed when Gorbachev tried to get Reagan to agree to confine SDI research, development and testing to the laboratory -- a restriction Reagan saw as aimed at "killing" his most cherished program...
...prevent the Treasury from raiding Social Security investments late Friday to keep the Government solvent. It is apparent that Congress can manage this self-imposed crisis no better than its annual battles to reduce spending. Lawmakers have turned the balanced-budget battle into a bizarre game of political one-upmanship...
...that could dart and weave to avoid anti- missile missiles. The disclosure of the MARV research is awkward for the Reagan Administration because it undercuts the President's argument that it is possible to build an airtight defense system. Arms-race foes naturally fear another round of nuclear one-upmanship as MIRVing is made more lethal by MARVing...
...back home. The film's only function is to provide Murphy with the opportunity to work a dozen or so variations on his familiar and oddly endearing routine: top Whitey. All of white America is a classroom for Fast Eddie's crash course in street smarts and larcenous one-upmanship. And everyone loves it, in the movie and in the audience, because Murphy's jive is blessedly free of malice. Under the ghetto gutter talk lurks a sassy little boy, outfoxing the grownups at a game he has been practicing all his life. He % is a Little Rascal playing Dirty...
Dining-room one-upmanship...