Word: feint
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They may have shared too much. At least in France, investigators now acknowledge that al-Qaeda may have been involved in a massive feint to Europe while the real attack was always planned for the U.S. "People were convinced that Europe remained the theater for Islamic terrorists," says Jacquard. "It's anyone's guess whether that was a technique to get people looking in the wrong place. But that's what happened...
Like these: A sarcastic feint won't do. The vein you seek is called the jugular. If you draw your sword, you must use it to kill. There's nothing more embarrassing to watch than incompetent nastiness...
...White House announcement last Friday lends itself to many interpretations, each carrying its own degree of cynicism: Was it a good-faith effort by Clinton to cut through the thicket of circumstantial evidence, Secret Service recollections and secondhand testimony by offering a firsthand account? Or was it a feint to give the appearance of cooperation and compliance that will ensure that Starr gets the blame when the President ultimately refuses to talk...
...WORLD, June 1]? I'll believe it when I see it. Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, may have changed his tune, but others have not. Ask me 30 years from now whether this was a watershed or just another "Sinn Feint." FLASH FIASCO Mannheim, Germany...
Even as the President last week was sweet-talking big Democratic Party donors into pledging $250,000 each, the Clinton Administration was readying a new feint on the campaign-finance front: trying to reverse the Supreme Court's landmark 1976 ruling, Buckley v. Valeo, which held that limits on candidates' spending infringe on their free speech. Last fall Clinton boosted his efforts to pass the McCain-Feingold bill that would curb soft money and give candidates cheap TV time, but now it's pretty much dead. Two weeks ago, he asked the Federal Election Commission to ban soft money...