Word: parlay
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...longer have been in command of the rebel forces. But his almost mythical status among the RUF's fighters, most of whom were recruited as teenagers, can't be discounted. Last time around, Sankoh used the ability of his forces to brutalize the long-suffering Sierra Leoneans to parlay his way from death row into government. This time, his bargaining chip is likely to be 350 hapless U.N. peacekeepers...
...sounded almost like the good old days on Al Gore's presidential campaign, with lots of dire talk about his opponent's risky schemes and secret plans, arrogant approaches and smug assumptions. Last week Gore managed to parlay what was to have been a simple health-care speech to medical reporters in Chicago into a dissertation on George W. Bush's coziness with the National Rifle Association. (A top N.R.A. official had been videotaped saying of Bush, "We'll have a President...where we work out of their office.") Gore also savaged the Texas Governor's Social Security plan with...
...hope that we'll see two campaigns of ideas, free of personal attacks. This year, it's not the economy, stupid - we've fixed that - it's character. That's the issue that was nearly Dubya's downfall in the primaries, and it's what he hopes to parlay into a Pennsylvania Avenue zip code...