Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pac-Man Defense. A maneuver named after the popular video game in which a company turns about and tries to swallow its pursuer. Even if it does not result in the acquisition of the firm that started the fray, the ploy can be a potent means of driving off the...
Hanoi and its Southeast Asian allies will probably continue to make available small quantities of MIA remains, using the maneuver as a way of gaining political or financial leverage. But political machinations are not important to the men who do the digging in the jungle. "We've got several more...
It was a noisy barrage. As soon as Congress reconvened after its Lincoln's Birthday recess, Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and James Exon of Nebraska began a Senate filibuster aimed at forcing the Administration to make more loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they...
Just as the smoke was beginning to clear in Crossroads, the government struck back with its biggest nationwide political crackdown in years. In a carefully choreographed maneuver across several cities, South African security police swooped down on 70 homes and offices belonging to opponents of the government and, in particular...
A Greenmailer. One of Icahn's partners in the Phillips struggle is Saul Steinberg, 45, an expert in the fine art of greenmail. In that corporate maneuver, an investor buys up a large block of stock in a company and threatens to take it over in hopes that the firm...