Word: gamesmanship
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...politically. He came to power with the image of a dull Soviet-era factory manager, which, of course, he was. And he was clearly as comfortable speaking Russian as he was speaking Ukrainian. In Moscow, his moves toward the West in recent years have been viewed as gamesmanship...
Democrats are also planning to stick to the argument that a big tax cut means you can forget about using the burgeoning federal budget surplus to pay down the national debt. In an adroit bit of political gamesmanship, Bill Clinton played up the goal of debt elimination last week when he unveiled new White House budget calculations that show the total surplus over the next 10 years rising to nearly $5 trillion, an $800 billion increase over the last estimate issued just six months ago. "We should be shooting for a debt-free America by the end of the decade...
...Democrats are also planning to stick to the argument that a big tax cut means you can forget about using the burgeoning federal budget surplus to pay down the national debt. In an adroit bit of political gamesmanship, Bill Clinton played up the goal of debt elimination last week when he unveiled new White House budget calculations that show the total surplus over the next 10 years rising to nearly $5 trillion, an $800 billion increase over the last estimate issued just six months ago. ?We should be shooting for a debt-free America by the end of the decade...
...takes two to play political football. The White House's frenzied attempts to protect its economic halo - "No economist thought we could continue to grow at 5 percent a year indefinitely," Clinton reminded Dan Rather on Monday - could certainly be considered gamesmanship...
...becoming a great man." Bobby's well-documented life and legend are re-examined here with moral clarity, psychological subtlety and a bracing dramatic pace. 3 A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS Dave Eggers tricks out his riveting memoir with an ironic title and plenty of literary gamesmanship, but the story he tells is indeed heartbreaking: the death of his parents and his subsequent guardianship of his younger brother. His book shows how laughter is sometimes the only medicine...