Word: upsmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...RECENT EXERCISE in one-upsmanship exhibited by the Salient editors is all too easy to ridicule. The substantive point of the majority opinion is actually quite correct--Harvard divestiture from companies doing business with the USSR would indeed most likely prove an empty, even a foolish, gesture. Where the majority falls down is where the divestiture movement always falls down: If divestiture cannot be justified on purely moral grounds, it cannot be justified at all, because its results are impossible to predict; and if it can be justified solely on moral grounds, then there is every reason to support...
...year contract. According to one estimate, each franchise spent between $300,000 and $500,000 in the cable application process. One firm, American Cablevision Corporation, budgeted more than $100,000 for video presentations and three marketing surveys throughout the City alone as part of the competitive franchise one-upsmanship. Cambridge's cable contract could be worth as much as $32 million, says Cambridge Cable Commissioner Joseph G. Sakey...
...would all be laughable were it not so stupid, and one has to wonder what Bishop Tutu must think of such petty one-upsmanship. It seems clear that the issue centers around a relatively simple and unimportant miscommunication regarding the scheduling of a prominent visitor, without intentional snubs from either side. Yet the incident is unfortunate nonetheless, for it demonstrates a painful insensitivity among Harvard officials on at least two counts...
...vicious circle of political one-upsmanship and ideological posturing must be broken if the Olympics are to survive. What is to be done? Well, for starters, we must move the Games to a permanent location in a relatively neutral country. History and sentiment tell us that Greece would be an ideal home for the Olympics; the knowledge that the Turks and Cyprus are right next door dictates otherwise...
...short, angry letters and righteous Crimson editorials are helpful but insufficient. Harvard must be persuaded to allow some form of student participation in faculty intention decisions. The College must commit itself to quality undergraduate education and not to academic one-upsmanship. Importantly, student, must not lost night of the real problem: we have no ability to defend our interests at Harvard-Radcliffe because we are excluded from the University's autocratic decision-making processes. Only with an adequate understanding of the problems we face can we begin to find solutions for them. Michael G. Colantuono...