Word: maneuverer
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While Democrats are relishing Frist's dilemma, Republicans are wondering how he will maneuver his way out of it. "It's a tricky game that Frist has to play," says a Republican staff member, as the Senate majority leader attempts to straddle the line between compromise and resolve. "I will...
Most attention on the prospects for a new government has focused on the question of drawing in the alienated Sunnis in the hope of undercutting the insurgency, and of containing Kurdish independence ambitions. But those issues may yet be eclipsed by a power struggle between the Shiite coalition and the...
But translating an electoral majority, or plurality, into effective power depends on two things - holding together a coalition that has its own significant internal fissures, and creating an effective alliance with other parties to give it the two thirds majority of Assembly votes needed to choose the next Iraqi leadership...
DIED. ROSE MARY WOODS, 87, doggedly loyal secretary to U.S. President Richard Nixon, who famously shared blame for an 18 1/2-minute gap in a tape recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff made three days after the Watergate break-in; in Alliance, Ohio. The recording was...
DIED. ROSE MARY WOODS, 87, doggedly loyal secretary to President Richard Nixon who famously took part of the blame for an 181/2-min. gap in a tape recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, made three days after the Watergate break-in; in Alliance, Ohio...