Word: back-door
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Peljto scored her first basket on a layup off a nifty back-door dish from co-captain forward Tricia Tubridy...
What Vitt brings to the table is an ability to move between the pipes with incredible speed, cutting off chances and stopping back-door shots...
...might describe his use of topology to the escaping light source problem as somewhat of a back-door approach. Gantra described this door not so much as a screen-door or as saloon-style swinging doors, but rather like “a sort of side door with an [elevated] window—one of those glass doors you see in movies that people jump into and the glass shatters.” This analogy seems fair, as Ganatra certainly crashed the math party, having accomplished his mathematical feat at such a young age. After much prodding, Ganatra finally admitted...
While each is unsavory in his own way, Summers and Kissinger are both gentlemen and scholars in the Harvard tradition, combining an academic background with Washington back-door experience at the highest levels. So it is with Marty Feldstein and the Bush tax plans, and with countless other professors and affiliates. This revolving-door connection brings prestige to Washington, while at Harvard it carries a certain measure of authenticity and power. Both establishments feed off the other’s legitimizing influence and redeem each other’s foibles by providing a home for its denizens...
...February Undergraduate Council meeting, Summers reiterated his opposition to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy but called Harvard’s arrangement with alumni an “uncomfortable, back-door policy inconsistent with transparency...