Word: gamesmanship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...context of the political gamesmanship to which we have become accustomed, Obama's unremarkable checklist that Americans could use in the future to evaluate his presidency seems almost revolutionary. Perhaps government can start down a new road graced by reason and commonsense solutions. Jon Thingvold, Murrieta, Calif...
...government can make a more powerful statement by declaring the end of another era, his own era, an era of small politics. You could call it the Clinton-Bush era, an era of partisan war rooms and poll-tested spin and round-the-clock gamesmanship designed to win the next news cycle. It would be hard to imagine a more compelling proponent of Obama's claim to a new politics than a legendary victim as well as an adept practitioner of the old politics...
...presidents said that the rankings encourage "gamesmanship" as universities stretch definitions and massage data in order to improve their place in the rankings...
...Jackson-Sharpton variety. An important slice of the white vote that Obama attracts is made up of people who are keenly attentive to such charges. They would quickly abandon him if convinced that, contrary to his rhetoric, he too was engaged in the old routines of accusatory racial gamesmanship...
...shackling of talent is what defined the Rugby World Cup, which ended with the unlikely England-South Africa final in Paris on Oct. 20. As frustrating a tournament as many would care to recall - up there with the worst of the soccer World Cups and their goal-less, gamesmanship-ridden ordeals - the event proved that rugby is sick and needs help...