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Meanwhile, Locke has proposed spending about half the reserve fund to bail out local governments--perhaps because he doesn't want to be outflanked by the state auditor who has positioned himself as the Democrat who can make I-695 work (the auditor wants a financial review of all state programs).
Will, who was the mainstream conservative columnist in the '70s, found himself outflanked on the right by William Safire, Pat Buchanan, Robert Novak, and Charles Krauthammer.
But when Clinton outflanked them and Gingrich's ethics problems embarrassed them, even the party's most intransigent ideologues learned the necessity of compromise.
A few years later, a British fleet commanded by George Clifford, the Earl of Cumberland, shrewdly outflanked the fortress.