Word: gamesmanship
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...true constants through this rough stretch and through the season as a whole was the floor leadership of junior point guard Tim Hill. Practically the only truly gametested player besides Scott entering the season, Hill showed the gamesmanship, control and floor leadership that any contending team must have from its point guard...
...Company of Men Gamesmanship '90s-style: a nasty corporate jock sets up a woman--and his soft-willed colleague--for the betrayal of their middle-class lives. Neil LaBute's Freon-cool comedy, made for a preposterously low $25,000, outraged viewers who didn't get the dark joke or the narrative suavity. See it with someone you're sure loves...
...some ways, Tarses is an odd person to be an insider in such network gamesmanship. Her father, producer Jay Tarses (Buffalo Bill, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), has long been known for his combative relations with the networks suits. "I learned from him that network executives were hateful, horrible people who should be shot on sight," says Tarses with a smile. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills, where her parents kept her safely aloof from the show-biz scene. But her dad liked to read his scripts aloud at the dinner table...
...issue is too complex--and too important--for political gamesmanship. It will never get sorted out until somebody starts playing it straight...
...client was concerned that Paller was misrepresenting the efficacy of a product to the FDA and blew the whistle. The FDA did, in fact, investigate the device but found nothing improper. To many who have worked with him, Wigand possesses great integrity and refuses to engage in corporate gamesmanship. "If someone hands him a line of crap, he says, 'That's a line of crap,'" says Richard O'Leary, a psychologist and colleague of Wigand's in the 1980s at E. Merck Diagnostic Systems. Although O'Leary says his colleague was sometimes impatient, "I have never known him to cross...