Word: adroitness
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...spies the base runner overreaching himself, then suddenly wheels and fires to first to nab him by half a step. Artful misdirection plus exact timing equals a dramatic out; Vincent understands that baseball equation. For never in the game's history has there been a pick-off move as adroit and emotionally satisfying as the one the commissioner executed last week when he threw George Steinbrenner out as the principal owner of the Yankees...
...foreign affairs. He managed to finesse most challenges at home. But the domestic agenda could not be deflected forever, and now he faces a series of divisive concerns, including a new civil rights bill, tax increases and growing fear of recession. The selection of David Souter, while tactically adroit, underscored Bush's need to move cautiously across a domestic playing field that suddenly looks less dismal to Democrats eyeing 1992. The shift results mainly from the government's failure to contain the mounting deficit (estimated at $169 billion for fiscal 1991), which forced Bush to flee never-never land...
...That is probably the best he can offer the Lithuanians. It is also probably the most they can get from him, or from any Kremlin leader. By sticking to their unilateral declaration of independence, they risk everything, not just for themselves but for the more cool-headed Estonians, whose adroit step-by-step approach toward the same goal has a far greater chance of success...
...policy has got it right almost every time, the notable exception being China. The President's "don't gloat" response to communism's demise has exactly satisfied Mikhail Gorbachev's needs -- which at this time are also America's. So, too, the Administration's Middle East policy has been adroit. A combination of private pressure and thinly veiled public threats has pushed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir so far into a corner that even he may finally have no alternative but to give peace a chance...
...Good Men is at least as good a play as The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which it resembles. The production is adroit, and its subject -- the degree to which the military is properly subordinate to civilian values -- has never ceased to be topical. But it suffers from bad timing. Plays that are in essence debates need each side to be able to make a reasonable case. In this conflict between career military "defenders" and soon-to-be-civilian attorneys over the rights of the accused, the imbalance is not in the play but in the minds of audiences. The flood...