Word: stratagem
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...various maladies. Nor is there any evidence that he felt he was losing his grip on the party, even though he was embarrassed and angered by the rebellion earlier this month of the so-called Tribune Group, composed of 37 far left Laborites. They balked at a new Wilson stratagem to tamp down inflation through deep cuts in social service spending and forced Wilson to call for a vote of confidence. He won it handily...
...Sheed raises but fails to provide adequate answers to a number of fairly basic questions. Is Ali really a bright fellow, though only semiliterate? What moves him? Is he a masochist? (This is not a basic question, but an idle one, suggested to Sheed by Ali's odd stratagem in Zaire of letting George Foreman punch him in the belly for several rounds.) If Ali really does receive his energy and impulses directly from the TV camera's red eye, as Sheed seems to believe, what will he do to get the Eye's attention when...
Ridiculous it may be, but journalists often find it essential to let their sources say things privately that they would never say otherwise. Some of these sources may try to entomb sensitive information by using the off-the-record stratagem, but the presidential luncheon episode seems to prove, as Seymour Hersh says, that such things do have a way of getting...
...fund," which is supposed to be maintained for an emergency. Instead of contributing to the fund as required by law, New York has obtained waivers from the city council permitting it to skip payments for the past seven years. As a result, the fund is almost drained. Still another stratagem is to push certain expenses into next year's budget and pull next year's revenues into the current budget-all by a stroke of a dexterous pen. To help balance the 1974 budget, for example, the city moved up water billings by six months. In the following...
...past two or three years, Britain's Maggie Smith has embarked on this melancholy course, and the dispiriting results have been on livid display on the stage of Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater for the past five weeks. Four years ago on this very stage, in The Beaux Stratagem, Maggie Smith spoke English as if it were the eighth wonder of the world. Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle...