Word: two-step
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...having an outstanding season, Garcia makes sure the team has fun on the court. An avid fan of Lyle Lovett and country-western dancing, Garcia does not leave her Texan pride behind when she steps on the court. "She's been trying to teach us all how to two-step at practice," sophomore Judy Iriye says...
...Tricky Two-Step. Complex sentences are a duplicitous politician's delight. Suppose a candidate plans to oppose kumquat subsidies. Saying so outright to a group of farmers would reap no votes -- just permanent enmity. Instead, the aspirant might try to finesse it like this: "No one in the Senate is more keenly aware of the courage and the grit of kumquat growers than myself, but we should never lose sight of how the federal deficit is robbing our children." It is an example of that classic two-step -- a sonorous lie followed by a fleeting glimpse of unpleasant reality...
...radio markets, including Buffalo, Kansas City and Orlando. Without much fanfare, discos that used to play Top 40 tunes have been converting into country music clubs, where cowboy wannabes pull up in Hondas to dance the Slappin' Leather, the Tush Push or the Texas two-step...
...secret of the Tomahawk's precision flying is a two-step guidance system. First, a radar altimeter compares the topography of key landmarks along the missile's flight path with detailed contour maps stored in its computer memory. Then, as the Tomahawk approaches its target, a small digital camera, acting as an electronic eye, compares the view from the nose cone with a library of images prepared from satellite photos. If the missile sees that it is even slightly off course, it makes adjustments...
...Kremlin's attempt to preserve its lines of communication with Baghdad has resulted in a diplomatic two-step. Moscow has resisted withdrawing its controversial contingent of military advisers from Iraq -- numbered at anywhere from 500 to 1,000 -- until their contracts expire, but has provided the Pentagon with information on Soviet military hardware there. After the Soviets voted to enforce the sanctions, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze stressed that "we have no plans to use force or take part in such operations...