Word: outflanking
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...Senator lost no time christening his new McCain Majority and taking it out for a drive. McCain doesn't think he has to outflank Bush on the right; he just has to seem acceptably pro-life and pro-gun and anti-Big Government. In an ad taped last week he announced that he was a "proud Reagan Republican" who was looking forward to tearing up the "44,000-page tax code." And in private, members of the McCain team said they planned to spend more than Bush on ads in New York, California and Ohio...
...Cold War (which often put it in the Soviet camp, diplomatically) was underscored by the socialist orientation of most of its governments since independence. Relations particularly deteriorated in the early '70s, after the Nixon administration aligned Washington closely with India's archrival, Pakistan, as part of its efforts to outflank the Soviets and improve ties with China (which had a long-running border dispute with India). Pakistan's importance as a Washington ally grew after 1980, when the country became the staging ground for U.S. efforts to assist Afghan resistance fighters against the Soviet invaders...
...Democratic party's key activist constituencies, but free trade remains a cornerstone of the vice president's politics. Much may hinge, then, on how Bill Bradley responds to the same issue. Buoyed by an endorsement from former Clinton administration labor secretary Robert Reich Monday, Bradley is well-placed to outflank Gore from the party's left. But the former New Jersey senator's own voting record is also solidly pro-free trade, and although he gave the agreement a qualified welcome Monday, opposing it would be an unlikely turnabout for him. Leading Republican candidates George W. Bush and John McCain...
...even Khatami wanted the situation cooled down, notes MacLeod. "The moderates know they'd lose any direct confrontation with the conservatives, who control the police and military. Yesterday's pro-Karbaschi demonstration went ahead even though Khatami urged its cancellation. He wants to move slowly, building public support to outflank the conservatives in the 2000 legislative elections." Still, with Karbaschi's trial scheduled to start in two weeks, the conservative offensive isn't over...
...passionate believer in the navy's historic strategic role, he immediately committed the Royal Naval Division to an intervention in the Flanders campaign in 1914. Frustrated by the stalemate in Belgium and France that followed, he initiated the Allies' only major effort to outflank the Germans on the Western Front by sending the navy, and later a large force of the army, to the Mediterranean. At Gallipoli in 1915, this Anglo-French force struggled to break the defenses that blocked access to the Black Sea. It was a heroic failure that forced Churchill's resignation and led to his political...