Word: outflank
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...scratching our heads and trying to see what options we have." Three weeks ago, Pickens offered a package of $3.8 billion in Mesa stock, promissory notes and other credits to acquire 100% of Cities Service. Meanwhile, however, Charles J. Waidelich, the company's chairman, had been trying to outflank Pickens with an offer to pay $17 per share for a 51% majority interest in Mesa. By last week, Cities Service had received tender offers of 41% of Mesa's stock. In an effort to scoop up the rest, Waidelich boosted his offer to $21 per share...
With that kind of a three-ring policy circus performing in public, the Reagan Administration often looks confused or inept, or both. The Administration's economic advisers in recent weeks have turned more and more to intrigues and attempts to outflank each other and seize the policy initiative. One White House official last week griped bitterly in private to Washington journalists about the low quality of economic advice being given to the President by Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Meanwhile, Treasury officials issued broadsides of their own. Among the more...
...policy triumph to take public minds off the Irish situation, the poor state of the economy, and the harshness of cutbacks and austerity measures imposed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe. For another, she would like to associate her administration with a progressive African policy in order to outflank the Labor party, which had been traditionally more interested in the fight against apartheid. Further, the Tory leadership would like to dispose of the whole Zimbabwe issue before its annual party conference in Blackpool next month...
...Soviet Union. You have to watch them-they work in three ways. First, by trying to get such superior forces they never need use them; a threat would be enough. We must stop them from doing that. Secondly, by trying to outflank and cut us off from our supplies of raw materials. That is the great significance of Rhodesia and South Africa: we get our vital raw materials from there. We're lucky with our oil for the time being. Now there is that colossal outflanking movement right across the oil countries, across the Horn of Africa. The third...
Khomeini's purpose in so lavishly welcoming Arafat could have been in part to outflank his leftist opposition in Iran by demonstrating his solidarity with the Palestinians. That view was supported by Chief of Staff Qarani's assurances that Iran would abide by its agreement with the U.S. not to share its arsenal of Amerlean-supplied planes, missiles and other weapons with any other state. Qarani predicted that foreign military advisers, and perhaps some technicians from the U.S., would soon be invited to return to Iran...