Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another option floated by Government officials is getting Congress to approve "humanitarian aid" to support the contras' families, many of whom live in Honduras and Guatemala, with the expectation that the money would be passed on to the fighting men. Again, Congress would probably be opposed to such a sleight-of-hand funding. The President, however, might be able to provide this family aid out of emergency funds under his control...
...Wednesday, Weinberger was ready to play a few specific cards, but he dealt them with a sleight of hand. At a White House lunch, he rattled off some numbers in a near mumble, giving only the President printed notes to follow. The others were "treated like second-class citizens," claimed one observer. When those around the table finally unscrambled Weinberger's offer, they did not think much of it. He had proposed shifting a scheduled 5.6% military pay increase from January 1986 to July 1, 1985, producing a paper saving of $4 billion in the fiscal 1986 budget with...
...badly. If the aging superstar continues to carry the load, the aging process accelerates." However, Russell bore most of the heavy equipment, and when Cousy became unable to hold up all of his traditional parts, he changed roles without anyone noticing. Here was the magician's finest sleight of hand...
...reason why Souther sounds so good right now. Another, of course, is that he is a very skillful writer whose love songs have both the toughness and the solid sentimentality of film noir. A tune like the title track is a very neat piece of backbeat sleight of hand. It starts out like a celebration of male swagger ("He said goodbye and just walked right out the door"), then turns into a deft bit of deflation ("He looked so good he must have practiced it before"). Songs like this have the grit to make the long run. -By Jay Cocks
Their return required a semantic sleight of hand. The Soviets would not simply rejoin the suspended Geneva talks, so last week's announcement very carefully called the impending talks "new negotiations." What about START and INF? "As far as those negotiations go, the situation has not changed," said Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vladimir Lomeiko at his Moscow press conference. "They are only possible given the removal of the American missiles." He was emphatic. "This is not a renewal of negotiations. These are absolutely new talks." Explains a U.S. official: "The Soviets had painted themselves into a very public corner...