Word: gamesmanship
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...this death and destruction is logically projected in a spirit of gamesmanship. Yet How to Make War is far more than "Dungeons and Dragons" for grownups. One Dunnigan scenario of how World War III could come about touches on the irrational, which is history as it endlessly reveals itself: "A vicious circle develops as each side suspects the other of superior technical performance. Lacking any means to validate this performance, the claims become even more outrageous and expensive ... In Russia, where the spirit and practice of the Potemkin village (a false front, as in motion picture sets) still lives...
When a swimming coach decides that his team doesn't stand a chance of staying in the water with a stronger opponent, he sometimes has to stop thinking swimming and start thinking chess. Not even Yale women's swimming coach Frank Keefe's impressive display of psychological gamesmanship, though was enough to prevent Harvard from stroking to an impressive 88 61 victory Saturday in New Haven, its first ever dual meet victory over the Bulldogs...
...practice, everybody assumed that the legislators would produce a resolution, and Ronald Reagan would sign it, before any real disruption occurred. But in Washington doing what everyone knows has to be done can be surpassingly difficult, and never more so than in this case. After a week of gamesmanship, House-Senate conferees were still struggling late Saturday to shape a measure that the President might accept. To get even that far, the Senate earlier had struggled through its first all-night session since 1978; some lawmakers caught naps on cots placed in a nearby conference room. Reagan, for his part...
...latest proposals until Reagan outlines his strategy. Whatever that strategy is, appropriation subcommittee chairmen say they will resist an effort to twist further the budget process to fit the President's political needs. For this they should be applauded; Reagan has too easily convinced the public that his fiscal gamesmanship should be seen only as a determined Mr. Conservative besting a flabby Mr. Liberal. In fact, the procedural tricks play a large role in the budget fight, and if the Administration triumphs this time around, it will be due more the mastery of Capitol Hill loopholes than to a resounding...
Weinberger's redistribution of Pentagon power has enhanced his standing with the brass, but at the same time, it has compelled him to crack down on the services' long tradition of competition and bickering. "Cap has said over and over again that he will not stand for gamesmanship," says an aide. Weinberger quickly demonstrated that he means it. He intervened in the bitter interservice dispute over the Rapid Deployment Force by creating a new four-service command for Southwest Asia. Once when several Air Force generals fell into disagreement over some very basic figures on aircraft costs, Weinberger ended...