Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Worker retraining. Another good idea--except Clinton wanted to force employers to create their own programs, on penalty of having to pay a new, mandatory 1.5% payroll tax. Political error! The tax threat exposed the attempted sleight-of-hand a bit too nakedly. It was never enacted...
...July 14 meeting, Jenison, one official who wasn't going to stand for any regulatory sleight-of-hand, told DeBarba and Kacich that if Northeast tried to resolve its licensing problems through internal paperwork alone, he would oppose it. Northeast had to get a license amendment approved before it could off-load another full core, and time was running out. DeBarba and Kacich called on Galatis and Betancourt to help them write the amendment request. The plan included, for the first time, the cooling-system improvements Galatis had been demanding for three years. It was a kind of victory...
Diaconis, Leverett professor of mathematics, is a world-class sleight of hand artist and a master card player who uses his tricks to teach mathematical concepts, such as probability...
...Vesco's grandiose expansion plans, they allowed him to buy them out for only $12,500 (all except Rothschild, who stayed in and after 18 months made a profit of more than $1 million on his $250,000 investment). By 1965 Vesco had incorporated his company, and by financial sleight of hand, he took his International Controls Corp. public without sec scrutiny. He bought controlling shares of a public company, merged it with ICC, and renamed the resulting company ICC. Presto: he was a publicly traded company. He had also accomplished his two other goals: he had his own firm...
...high school, I played guitar with a band called Sleight of Hand. Some of the other members are graduating from Berklee College of Music...So there's a chance I may take a year off and tour with the band...In two years, I'm committed to attending Harvard [for law school...