Word: outflanking
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...really just the motion of atoms and molecules; slowing therefore equals cooling). Then they put the atoms in a magnetic "bottle" that allowed the faster-moving, more energetic atoms to escape; those left behind were cooler. Finally, in a leap of ingenuity that enabled this scientific team to outflank its rivals, the Boulder scientists rotated the magnetic field so that the few cold atoms that were leaking through a weak point in the bottle couldn't find this one escape route...
...focus-group discussions conducted for the commission last summer. According to the results, which TIME has obtained, the Americans ages 20 to 50 in the focus groups said they had no confidence they would get their money back from Social Security. Hearing this, Kerrey saw an opening to outflank Gingrich on the issue of personal responsibility vs. Big Government, according to a commission source. "Let's ask people, 'What would you prefer, a payroll-tax cut that lets you invest the money, or would you rather trust your government...
...parry thrusts by Congressmen like Henry Gonzalez of Texas, who chairs the House Banking Committee. First, Clinton dampened support for the Texan's proposals for more Fed openness by sending him a letter last September opposing any fundamental changes in the Federal Reserve Act. Then Greenspan sought to outflank Gonzalez in February and March by taking the unprecedented step of announcing the rate hikes the same day the Fed decided to enact them...
Having proposed deeper cuts than either of his more conservative predecessors, Clinton set out to outflank the opposition. He dispatched Bentsen to Texas, economic adviser Robert Rubin to the New York Stock Exchange and other Cabinet officers to their home states to sell his plan. "All those who say we should cut more, be as specific as I have been," Clinton said. By the day after his speech to Congress, during his road show to promote his budget plan, he was adopting the Republican message as his own, telling a crowd in St. Louis, Missouri, "We need you to hold...
...President did everything he could to outflank the lobbyists -- except for those he meant to enlist in his cause, like the environmentalists, the children's activists, the consumer groups. White House officials were proud of their willingness to flush the enemy out into the open. "We've already changed the debate from 'Can we take them on?' to 'How much do we dare to do?' " said an official. But it was Ross Perot, in giving his tentative blessing to Clinton's plan, who acknowledged, "More lobbyists will get rich in the next 90 days than in the history...