Word: counterpunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walking a fine line between heated cries to battle by congressional trade hawks and equally urgent calls for restraint by dedicated free traders. Last week President Bush took a congressionally mandated swipe at Japan, but delivered the blow gently -- in the hope that Tokyo would not feel compelled to counterpunch...
...Cohen come by KKR's Manhattan offices. Chewing out Cohen in front of Shearson aides, Kravis demanded a major role in the buyout, sputtering, "This is my franchise!" Cohen walked out, suggesting they talk again in a few days. But before that talk took place, Kravis delivered a thumping counterpunch: a $20.6 billion buyout bid for RJR Nabisco...
...reedy whine. At Ailes' urging, Bush painfully learned what not to do by watching hours of his awkward TV appearances. Ailes spent a week priming Bush for his announcement speech and was with Bush before the Rather interview, which Ailes had insisted be live, and suggested the cool counterpunch about Rather's walkout. "If a reporter is bullying you, the viewers at home may start to root for you," Ailes advises in his book You Are the Message. "The more inflammatory the journalist, the cooler you should...
Bush's broadside seemed to be a deliberate misreading of recent remarks by Cuomo, who had expressed irritation at "increasing references to my ethnicity" and at speculation that an Italian American could not be elected President. Cuomo followed Bush's punch with a counterpunch. "There are few things more amusing in the world of politics," said he, "than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory." As if on cue, Bush headed back to Washington, where he endorsed prayer in public schools and "the sanctity of human life" as keynote speaker at the Liberty Federation...
After performing those feats of damage control, Puccio narrowed his own case to one clear, pointed counterpunch. No crime had been committed, he declared, because Mrs. Von Bulow had never been given any insulin. A series of medical experts backed his contention that there was no firm proof of insulin injection. With much of the circumstantial evidence against Von Bulow in tatters, most lawyers agree that the jury had little choice. But some disparaged Puccio's performance. "What victory?" snorted one former colleague. "Against a prosecutor with little experience and a judge who leaned his way?" Others were more impressed...