Word: feinting
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...chats. So when Putin named a little-known financial investigator named Viktor Zubkov Prime Minister, it surprised everyone. State-owned TV had spent the summer giving huge amounts of exposure to two tough-guy Putin proteges who seemed the likely successors, but Zubkov's appointment, first described as a feint, is now looking like an actual succession...
...years, Shelbyville had been comforted by its self-reported--and wildly inaccurate--graduation rate of up to 98%. The school district arrived at that number by using a commonly accepted statistical feint, counting any dropout who promises to take the GED test later on as a graduating student...
...Wyclef, only replied that, “It hadn’t been done before.” Instead, the HCC opted to survey student interest based on anecdotal evidence and informal chats. It comes as little surprise that the HCC failed to satisfy students with such a paltry feint at research. Given the amount of money that the HCC has hemorrhaged on their most recent endeavors, the student body deserves the chance to choose both a more invested and competent...
...suspected insurgent hideouts. Yet this was not the big showdown everyone had expected but rather an attempt to see how the insurgents inside the city would respond. A Marine battle-operations officer called it "a dress rehearsal" for the ultimate combat. This was a scouting mission, a risk-filled feint supported by air power, an attempt to get an edge for the eventual showdown...
...renomination of Charles Pickering for a federal appellate judgeship a clever feint by George Bush? That's what many Senate Democrats now think. Bush announced last week that he will send Pickering's name back to the Senate for an appeals-court seat in New Orleans. The conservative Mississippi judge, strongly backed by Senator Trent Lott, was nominated last year but blocked by Democrats over questions about his civil-rights record, including a 1959 law-review article he wrote opposing interracial marriage. Why would President Bush revisit that battle so soon after Lott resigned as majority leader over racially loaded...