Word: feinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reassure financial markets that he is serious about attacking the deficit, Bush held two hour-long sessions with congressional leaders. His aides knew lawmakers would decline their offer of a full-fledged budget summit with the White House, but the feint did nothing to hurt the mood on Wall Street: the New York Stock Exchange surged all week, closing Friday 87.5 points higher than the week before. Moreover, after years of sleepy meetings with Ronald Reagan, the Congressmen could barely contain their enthusiasm for the more engaged Bush. Many seemed astonished that a President could think and talk extemporaneously...
...much like Rembrandt, Tyson fights by the numbers. "Seven-eight," Rooney calls the tune, signaling for combinations. "Feint, two-one. Pick it up, six-one. There you go, seven-one. Now make it a six." The savage sight of Tyson advancing on his sparring partners recalls the classic moan of an early matchmaker: "He fights you like you stole something from him." Uppercuts are especially urgent. "If you move away too much," says Oliver McCall, the best gym fighter of the nine revolving lawn sprinklers, "he'll punch your hipbone and paralyze you in place." Hurricane comes...
Bennett also offered an attack on the Core Curriculum as a "symbolic nod, a head feint," in the direction of a true central educational core. When Bok confronted him on the issue, Bennett displayed a remarkable ignorance of the specifics of the core program. While he was able to crack that it is a "core lite," he failed to offer any specific commentary. Yet the Core does have its pitfalls, foremost among them the fact that the undergraduates it serves, like their Secretary of Education, don't understand its foundation. The Core's mission to teach students how to think...
...symbolic nod, a head feint" in the direction of a basic education, Bennett says...
...Iraqis might have moved more rapidly if they were not concerned that the Iranian bridgehead at Fao was a feint to draw off troops from Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Across the nearby border, Iran has amassed 200,000 soldiers. To have the city cut off would be a stunning and perhaps fatal blow to the Baghdad government. As the battle at Fao raged, Iraqi fighters shot down an Iranian plane on a flight from Tehran to Ahvaz. All 46 aboard, including eight members of Iran's parliament, perished...