Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both alone in his cell. You 've slipped out a knife (eight-to ten-inch blade, double-edged). You're holding it beside your leg so he can't see it. The enemy is smiling and chattering away about something. He thinks you 're his fool; he trusts you. You see the spot. It's a target between the second and third button on his shirt. As you calmly talk and smile, you move your left foot to the side to step across his right-side body length. A light pivot toward him with your...
...told him it was against health rules; if opened to the public, it would not remain clean. Could this have touched the consuming rage Abbott had written about? He quietly asked Adan to step outside to "talk this over." The younger man agreed. Around the dark street corner, a knife appeared. Adan was stabbed in the chest, in almost exactly the way that Abbott had described in his book...
...1960s as finance director in Reagan's California cabinet, and has remained close to the President. As Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Richard Nixon and as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under both Nixon and Gerald Ford, Weinberger became known as "Cap the Knife," the vigorous slasher of budgets and waste...
Since coming to the Pentagon, the Knife has focused on paring away bureaucratic procedures and recarving department responsibilities. He has yet to make a dent in the bloated Pentagon budget, but his procedural reforms may, in the long run, yield substantial savings. His principal targets: the Pentagon's elaborate and illogical procurement and budget planning processes. Weinberger has appointed a special assistant to search out waste and fraud and has been open to outside ideas. Ehner Staats, on his final day in office as Carter's Comptroller General, sent Weinberger a letter with 15 recommendations to improve Pentagon efficiency; eleven...
...Haig's turf, he has not hesitated to express views that differ from those of the Secretary of State. He opposed, for example, Haig's effort to set a deadline for arms talks with the U.S.S.R. Yet once the President has spoken, Weinberger abides by the decision. Cap the Knife, with his reverence for good management, is a consummate team player...