Word: stratagems
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...with this World Cup. Still, the Dutch team at first was clearly not the "clockwork orange" of the 1974 tournament (orange because of its uniforms and clockwork because everything it tried worked that way until the final against West Germany). It was a Dutch concept of "total football"-no stratagem at all but a blazing and relentless rush of soccer in which every team member played both attack and defense-that had dazzled the '74 tournament and given hope to soccer theorists that the days of the clogged, cupping defense that had slowed down soccer...
Many Israelis, who have long suspected that their Premier does not have the vision to grasp the opening provided by Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, saw Begin's interpretation of Resolution 242 as yet another stratagem to hold on to all of the West Bank-even if it meant abandoning the peace talks. The criticism did not yet threaten Begin's position as Premier, and it could well be muted in the wake of last week's atrocity. But much now depends on his talks in Washington. Should the Israelis conclude that Begin's intransigence...
...argument is getting venomous. Europeans are practically unanimous in their conviction that Washington's refusal to support the dollar is in fact a stratagem to force Japan, West Germany and Switzerland to expand their economies or be priced out of the U.S. and other markets altogether. In fact there are already signs that several important sectors of the West German economy are suffering from the rise in the value of the mark against the dollar, which makes German goods more expensive on world markets. Sales of textiles, a major export, are off 3% from last year. Makers of machine...
...five) the pictorials are not filled with feather-bedecked women waiting in expensively decorated apartments for well-dressed, well-tanned young men. Hustler accepts no liquor or cigarette advertising, the mainstays of men's magazines. Whether this is done for moral reasons or as a neat stratagem for future court cases is impossible to say, but the absence of Winston and Salem men fits the editorial policy well. Each month Hustler turns over its lucrative back cover to a public service announcement; when asked how this is possible, Flynt just says, "as for advertisers, Hustler doesn't need them...
...June 11 and 28, Jefferson labored over the Declaration, writing on a portable writing box that he himself designed. The document that he produced?later amended slightly by the rest of the drafting committee and further altered by the Congress itself ?combines solemnly elevated thought with artful political stratagem. Its philosophy is not novel, nor did Jefferson intend it to be. The same general ideas, most completely developed by English Philosopher John Locke, have been a kind of political gospel in the Colonies for some years. Jefferson intended to state the common American sense, not to invent political theory?...