Word: outwits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dreams have come true: he danced the gamut of Western choreography, now heads a major company, the American Ballet Theatre, and is making his third film, Giselle. His second movie, White Nights, tells the tale of an emigre star whose plane crashes in the Soviet Union, forcing him to outwit the KGB in a second flight to freedom...
...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...