Word: maneuverable
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Perhaps in an effort to give them life, Larteguy has granted them all rich and complex lives; but the effect of this maneuver is simply to show up the author's romanticized psychology. In point of fact, The Centurions almost emerges as an argument for more and better sexuality. The...
In Tanganyika, sober, sensible Prime Minister Julius Nyerere answered mounting criticism in his T.A.N.U. party by firing the most respected member of his Cabinet-a white man-and then resigning himself. But Nyerere kept his post as T.A.N.U.'s boss. It was a political maneuver that might, in fact...
Fanfani himself approved. He wanted to collapse his Cabinet in order to rebuild it on a new power base. He expects to continue his alliance with the Social Democrats and Republicans, but wants to get rid of the free-enterprising Liberals. In their place, he wants to work with Pietro...
"Not since the days of the Suez crisis," wrote Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, "has the Western world been more deeply divided than it is now over the Katanga. The situation is in a thorough mess.'' And not for years have the pundits and...
In a mind-boggling maneuver to avoid double taxation (from Britain and Holland), the ex-competitors set up Unilever Ltd. and Unilever N.V. (for Naamlooze Venootschap, or limited liability) as two separate holding companies that divide Unilever's assets but pool its profits. Each has a board of directors...