Word: outflank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local police were warned by a story in a Baltimore newspaper of the integration attempt, the demonstrators attempted to outflank the police by sending a token party to the front gate and deploying the main force to side and rear entrances...
Today, thanks to an enterprising Venezuelan firm called INSA (for Industrias Integradas), a clutch of U.S. companies have found a way to outflank the new restrictions-a way that is not only legal but encouraged by the Venezuelan government. In a sprawling, $3.6 million plant now under construction at Valencia in Venezuela's industrial "Golden Triangle," INSA plans to manufacture a dozen different products under license from nine U.S. firms ranging from Rhode Island's Fram Corp. (oil, gas and air filters) to RCA Whirlpool (refrigerators, washing machines and gas ranges). The U.S. firms will get royalties...
Meanwhile, in the cause of credit for their own party, Republicans sought to outflank him in the House. Locked up in the powerful House Rules Committee since last summer was a modest civil rights bill that liberal House Democrats had been trying to blast loose for debate...