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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos Excavating the Recent Past | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Despite being up two players, however, the Cantabs couldn't maneuver into position to work one by Dartmouth goalie Kristen Bjork.

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Green Freezes Icewomen, 4-1; Second Period Does in Crimson | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

For Ariane, simplicity is an Important virtue. The European rocket releases a satellite directly into orbit, dumping the payload at the correct height. The shuttle is launched by conventional rocket and then depends on rocket boosters to maneuver the satellite to its destination. That two-step process, critics say, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Competitor in the Cosmos | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

He was caught up, inevitably, in the crisis of 1968, when Czechoslovakia seemed for a few giddy months to have won a measure of independence. As Soviet tanks finally invaded, the ailing Seifert angrily hobbled to the Czech Writers' Union and got himself elected chairman so that he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prague's Indomitable Spirit | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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