Word: sleight
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...estimated corporate taxes from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1 this year. Why? By pushing the collection into the next fiscal year, the bill makes this year's immediate relief look larger. "Republicans had to make sure it looked less dangerous by packing it with every kind of gimmick and sleight of hand I have ever seen," fumes Rangel...
...Labor Party are saying there should be natural expansion of existing settlements. So if you took a poll on whether there should be no further construction at all in existing settlements, it's unlikely that a majority would support that. The Israelis are looking for a Peres-style sleight of hand that allows them to tell the Americans and Palestinians that there's some form of settlement freeze while telling Israelis, particularly the settlers and their supporters in the cabinet, that construction will continue and that this is in no way the first step towards abandoning the settlements. This...
Think of John Kennedy, who learned from his father the art of reckless behavior concealed by compartmentalization and sleight-of-hand. In the summer of 1947, JFK, visiting England and Ireland, had an onset of Addison's disease (an insufficiency of the adrenal glands) so serious that it nearly killed him. He was given the last rites and shipped back to America with a nurse. Ever after, he lied about his Addison's disease, which he disguised as a touch of malaria picked up in the Pacific during the war. He would never have been elected President if the truth...
...strange metaphysics of the vice presidency (a nothing who may, in a heartbeat, become everything) give the office (and the vice presidential nominee) a sleight-of-hand quality. Now you focus on him (her). Now you don't. The choice may say something about the presidential candidate. Or it may not, if you see what I mean. What did the selection of Lyndon Johnson in 1960 tell us except that the Kennedys weren't getting enough sleep? (They didn't really want L.B.J., and were shocked when he accepted...
Tobacco giants Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds unveiled a deal Sunday that would make any street-corner sleight-of-hand practitioner proud. Philip Morris will supplement its already prodigious Kraft Foods properties by buying Nabisco Holdings, producer of national treasures like Oreos and Ritz crackers, for $14.9 billion. Once that transaction is completed, Nabisco Group Holdings (the parent company of Nabisco Holdings), will be acquired by the R. J. Reynolds tobacco company - the same company Nabisco Group divested itself of just one year ago - for $9.8 billion...