Word: outflanking
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Bush says he is willing to send technical advisers to show the Soviets how to expand institutions that are just taking shape there, like commercial banks, a stock market, accounting firms, private construction and agricultural businesses. He could go further and outflank the stultifying bureaucracy by offering to provide funds directly to those market-oriented innovations. He might give loans, along with managerial training, to budding Soviet entrepreneurs who want to buy state enterprises that are marked for privatization. Well handled, such new companies could demonstrate the virtues of perestroika and provide employment for some of the millions who will...
...evil empire." Only under pressure from across the Atlantic did the Reagan Administration enter talks with the Soviets on intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Similarly, when the Administration began a new round of strategic arms talks, the aim was not so much to reach an agreement with Moscow as to outflank the nuclear-freeze movement in the U.S. and to shore up congressional support for an array of new American weapons...
...liked Ollie." Transcripts of George's remarks, made in closed sessions with Congress's Iran-contra committees in early August, were released last week. Unnamed officials in the White House, said George, considered the CIA too timid on covert action. "The way to handle Bill Casey was to outflank him to the right . . . suggest that maybe he wasn't ready to take high risk...
...been wishing to see ((him)) all along" and had not previously met with him only because of "difficult circumstances." He then proceeded to compare the campaign to reform South Korea's constitution by referendum to go, a popular Oriental board game in which two opponents seek to outflank each other and expand territory with scores of strategically deployed small stones. Said Chun: "Political development will become difficult if we behave like a go player who angrily sweeps the go board clean in the middle of a game because he is doing poorly." The responsible approach to the electoral issue...
Twice last week Ronald Reagan employed the bold but risky political strategy of pre-emptive compromise. Faced with the all but certain passage of bills that he had previously threatened to veto, the President sought to outflank Congress with his own initiatives on South Africa and international trade. His political maneuvering served only to heighten the partisan conflict on Capitol Hill. "This is no longer an issue of what's good for South Africa," declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. "It's a raw political issue. South Africa is secondary." As for new trade legislation, a top White House aide...