Word: maneuverer
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Should China be praised for its progress on human rights or criticized for its continued failings? Probably both. According to human-rights monitor John Kamm, some 3,000 people are sentenced for nonviolent political and religious offenses every year. And yet, China's people have gained room to maneuver, especially...
That year, Summers served as Clinton’s point-man on a controversial effort to bail out the heavily indebted Mexican government. The Clinton administration bypassed the Republican-controlled Congress in the face of vehement GOP opposition to the bailout plan—a maneuver that didn?...
This was followed by a tutorial in “windin’.” A maneuver that emulates the movements involved in hoola-hooping, but “slowly, so it’s more sensual,” according Adigun.
But TWA's unions, led by the Air Line Pilots Association, were vehemently opposed to a Lorenzo takeover. They feared that he would once again resort to a tactic he had used after Texas Air won a battle for control of Continental Airlines. In 1983 Lorenzo took Continental into bankruptcy...
The aborted defections prompted Ronald Reagan to suggest that they might be a "maneuver" by the Soviet Union on the eve of the Geneva summit. "Coming as they do together," he told reporters, "you can't rule out the possibility that this might have been a deliberate ploy." But, Reagan...