Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brzezinski's labels too often seem facile, even interchangeable, and his theories too flexible, too clever by half. In 1977-78 he argued that the U.S. must learn to live with revolutionary change in Third World countries. Then, in 1979, without admitting a major shift in policy, he pushed vigorously, though unsuccessfully, for a policy of backing Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza to the bitter...
...Baby Boom, the much celebrated bufge in the United States population, sired by millions of World War Two veterans and their contemporaries. They-those young adults born between 1945 and 1955-are the one certainty in the American future. Clever investment strategists know that those "boomers," now frolicking in Club Med or their favorite singles bars, are buying homes (housing boom, now underway) and will begin retiring in about three decades (projected Florida real estate boom...
eral Texas oil companies may have discovered a clever new way of saving millions of dollars in taxes on their gushers. The scheme involves transferring the ownership of old oil and gas wells to trusts that are held directly by the company's shareholders rather than by the firm itself. The advantage of the transfer is that company profits are normally taxed twice: first as earnings of the firm and then as dividends to individual shareholders. But payouts from trust funds are taxed only as personal income to the recipients, thus eliminating any corporate levy...
Sometimes the Pentagon's censors are too clever by half. Or by whole. Take this excerpt from the transcript of closed-door testimony on the 1981 defense budget that was released after sensitive information had been snipped out by the Defense Department: "On Jan. 14, there were 110 F-14s at Miramar [a naval air station near San Diego]. Of these aircraft, a total of [deleted] F-14s, or 47%, were classified as mission capable. The remaining [deleted] F-14s, or 53%, were grounded for parts and maintenance...
...Then clever moneymen discovered another loophole in the rules: give the gifts or bonuses to the depositor's friend. Gifts of cash generally have proven more popular than appliances and other goods, possibly because cash can be more easily divided...