Word: maneuverable
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The man who brought it off was agile Premier Edgar Faure, a wily practitioner of parliamentary maneuver. After squeaking through three confidence votes in less than three weeks, each time constructing his majority from a different grouping, Faure hoped that new elections might give him a working majority. The possibility...
Appearing in baggy tweeds and unshined shoes, Clint Murchison told for the first time how he had happened to buy the Central stock. It was, he insisted, a strictly run-of-the-mill investment, and not a slick maneuver to help Young win the Central. In fact, said Murchison, he...
Ezra Benson hesitated to give the order. Pork's troubles go too deep to be cured easily by price props. U.S. consumers are losing their taste for pork because 1) they are cutting down on fatty foods, and 2) they followed the advice of the Agriculture Department to eat...
Zorlu is an ambitious, Paris-schooled diplomat who has risen swiftly to the posts of Deputy Premier and Acting Foreign Minister by his talent for improvising debt settlements, spouting statistics, and providing his boss with arguments to show that Turkey's economic situation is basically shipshape. Turkey's...
To get the "fund of maneuver," Zorlu first went to the International Bank. The bank said it could advance no more funds unless the Turks drastically overhauled their policy and established their financial solvency. Menderes next called in an old friend, Max Thornburg, a rich, retired U.S. oil executive of...