Word: brainwork
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Feminine Intuition. Mostly, the men take an overprotective, implicitly patronizing attitude toward their female partners. While "feminine intuition" is allowed to contribute occasionally to the process of detection, most of the heavy brainwork is handled...
...months ahead, Ziegler is expected to continue as Nixon's top personal adviser. The question remains of who will do the long, slogging hours of leg-and brainwork to develop White House policy on the whole galaxy of domestic problems, from national health insurance to welfare reform. That job had been done by John Ehrlichman, who directed the Domestic Council. Under him, the council boasted a staff of 75 and played an important role in shaping Nixon's domestic programs during the first term. Now the council is down to 26 staffers, and its influence has declined proportionately...
...reason for his success in moving the team is his ability to read defenses and call audible at the line of scrimmage. He picked apart the Harvard unit. "He was a hell of a quarterback as far as brainwork goes." said Gary Farneti, the Crimson's left linebacker...
...MacBean was a hell of a quarterback as far as brainwork goes," he added. The Princeton quarterback, playing that position this season for the first time in four years, combined an ability to run, pass, and think to lead a virtually unstoppable offense...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, his urban affairs adviser, and Henry Kissinger, his national security specialist, do their brainwork in basement enclaves. In his most unusual departure from tradition, Nixon has given Spiro Agnew an office in the White House, only 50 paces from his own. President-watchers concluded uncharitably that Nixon is anxious to keep his Vice President on a short leash...