Word: outwait
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...project and, to the muted delight of community leaders, purchased a $4 million Harvard Square parking lot where a developer had once hoped to build two 20-story towers. This year's small battles are typical of this fight--"you win once in a while, but the University can outwait you," one community activist says...
Unresponsives are too frightened, confused or hostile to discuss matters. Bramson suggests trying to outwait them: stare at them in a friendly fashion, but say nothing. As the growing silence produces anxiety, throw your eyebrows up expectantly. Chances are the unresponsive will break first, particularly if you have practiced coping with awkward silences yourself...
...more important the position, the longer the delay: three months for low-level managers, six months for intermediate, almost a year at the top level. By the time an administrator has his own team in place, he may be on the way out himself. Seasoned bureaucrats know how to outwait and outfox a politically appointed boss, no matter how zealous or resolute...
...Charles de Gaulle's distaste for the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, told Johnson during a 90-minute talk at the White House last week that Hanoi, for its part, no longer believes it can achieve a military victory in the South, but is convinced that it can outwait...
Yoshi Akabane (4) hits the ball softly, doesn't play a fiercely agressive game, and waits for his opponent to make errors. Saturday he was able to outwait Amherst's Al Wilde, 6-4, 6-2, in the day's longest singles match. Yoshi doesn't look like a racquet whiz, but as one court side observer put it, "He beats more good tennis players that...