Word: sidestep
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Better Squeeze. Ike did sidestep one aspect of the plan that has a riptide potential. The fiscal flexibility that he wants for the Defense Secretary, enabling the Secretary to shift as much as 10% of the total defense budget within and among the services, is one of Congressman Vinson's chief targets. The President carefully avoided mentioning this in his legislative proposal, instead announced that he will ask for such flexibility on behalf of the Defense Secretary in his next budget (fiscal 1960). He is confident that his program has a better chance of squeezing through a Congress that...
Hard Man, Hard Decisions. The current surge of anti-Dulles feeling comes principally because many of the free world's politicians and pundits are trying to sidestep the hard decisions of defense by agitating for a new parley at the summit with the Kremlin. Dulles is known for his unchanging distrust of Communist promises. "Dulles," said England's liberal Manchester Guardian, "is creating for himself something of the reputation of a professional anti-Soviet, someone to whom every action by the Soviet government appears suspect or worse by reason of its origin rather than by its nature. That...
...unconstitutional or are under appeal. In New York, an accountant who was arrested last January for working on Sunday was acquitted by a judge who pointed out that baseball stadiums and theaters have long violated the Sabbath with impunity. In many cities where Sunday-closing ordinances are enforced, merchants sidestep the law by selling from branches outside city limits. Rather than turn away customers, businessmen in such cities as Newark and Little Rock, Ark. have repeatedly paid fines and continued to cater to Sunday trade...
...field has attracted fakers and incompetents. The classic boner was made by the experts who, in the 1920 depression, strongly advised G.M. to drop Chevrolet and quit the low-priced car business. Some consultants, concerned more with fees than duty, sidestep the job of giving unpleasant advice. One consultant spent three years at a troubled corporation, amassing a $600,000 fee and making numerous recommendations. But he avoided the only important one: fire the family management whose incompetence was the real cause of the trouble...
...grandson of President William Henry Harrison, filed for the office and became the best bet for the G.O.P. nomination. Harrison (now serving his second term in the House) has been unusually good at keeping his fences mended and running errands for folks back home. He had wanted to sidestep an election fight with popular Lester Hunt, but with the Senator out of action, Harrison, like all Wyoming Republicans, was suddenly feeling tough and cocky...