Word: outwit
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...year he wrote a book on the subject, Merger Mania, and subtitled it Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Moneymaking Secret. In the book Boesky loftily declared that "there are no easy ways to make money in the securities market . . . there are no esoteric tricks that enable arbitragers to outwit the system...
...Harvard offense--which has scored nine goals or less only two times this year--couldn't outwit the Dartmouth defense...
...although the Crimson was able to outwit lacrosse's version of basketball's "four corners"--netting three final period goals--it wasn't able to catch the Bruins (6-4 overall, 2-0 Ivy), who won, 14-10, in front of 250 spectators at Stevenson Field yesterday...
...most daring method yet of smuggling cocaine from South America to the U.S. Airplanes have long been a favored way to haul drugs, but federal authorities now use radar to track suspicious planes and keep watch on out-of-the-way airstrips. So smugglers have been trying to outwit police, and outdo James Bond, by using parachutes, night-vision goggles and radio beacons to make free-fall drops...
...want, perhaps even need real men (women need not apply) who can stand up to the ruthless terror tactics of Islamic fanatics, outwit and ultimately outgun the miscreants who choose to try to besmirch this nation's honor...