Word: outsmarting
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...land forces must shift from the Maginot Line mentality to maneuver warfare," he argues. "Our Army should be more like the Marines." Hart would try to change military thinking by rewarding and advancing officers who are expert in tactics and innovation, not program managers. "We've got to outsmart the enemy," says the Senator, who was shocked to discover that the academies have virtually squeezed out the required study of military history and tactics in favor of the social and political sciences...
...Majeski felt, was to keep the pressure on. "Abbott believed he would outsmart us all, find a place to hide and live out his life without a worry. But if he knew someone was on his trail and not giving up, then he would begin to worry." Majeski believed that Abbott would stay away from the airlines. "He'd never flown, and he wouldn't trust a plane. Besides, he's infatuated with buses. To him, they represent adventure and his dream of escape to somewhere else." Because Abbott had served a long sentence in Illinois...
McNerney still relies on a series of unorthodox moves to gain an edge, but always manages to work in the tilt and outsmart the most polished of veterans. Edwards, an All-Ivy choice last year, got tied up just when he seemed to have complete control...
Laird acted on the assumption that he had a constitutional right to seek to outsmart and outmaneuver anyone with whom his office brought him into contact. I eventually learned that it was safest to begin a battle with Laird by closing off all his bureaucratic or congressional escape routes, provided I could figure them out. Only then would I broach substance. But even with such tactics, I lost as often as I won. John Ehrlichman considered mine a cowardly procedure and decided he would teach me how to deal with Laird. Following the best administrative theory of White House predominance...
ROBERT LUCAS, 41. The "rational expectations" economists hold that short-term policy jiggering cannot outsmart human ingenuity, or, you can't fool all the people even some of the time. One principal in this school is Lucas of the University of Chicago. Says he: "The real amount of goods and services available cannot be manipulated effectively by short-term market interferences. Such policies are based on the premise that we, the Government, can make people work harder, invest more or perform some other desired objective. But people are skeptical, so such policies do not work any more. The public...