Word: stratagems
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...call for a multicultural student center sounds rather innocuous. It hardly sounds like a stratagem of racial separatists. One might expect that the University would oppose it on the grounds of expediency rather than philosophy...
...School and ran after us in a V-formation, all very professional. I was with a friend from out of town who managed to divert them for a second, and we ran. They did not say they wanted money. They said they wanted to kill us and, had our stratagem failed, they would have done so. I reported the assault to the Cambridge, Harvard and State Police and to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, suggesting a pro-active policy against suspicious-looking groups of young...
...cappella is like a cold wind blowing over unmarked graves. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) begins with ominous droning and then, adding drums, shakers and Gerrard's serpentine singing, builds until its swirling patterns evoke the hypnotic gyrations of a belly dancer. The North African mood of The Spider's Stratagem is embellished by sinuous webs of violins, drifting voices and pattering percussion...
...squeeze foreign companies doing business in the U.S. for $45 billion in taxes over four years. He would rely on that measure to provide nearly one-third of all the new taxes he will need to finance his program to reduce the deficit and increase public investment. The stratagem is characteristically Clintonian: an apparently painless (for Americans) way of generating revenue without raising unpopular levies like the gasoline tax or touching popular spending programs like Medicare...
...stratagem worked beautifully against Connecticut. And how does Coach Locker feel...