gambit

Adjusted for inflation, silver would need to exceed $200 a troy ounce to top the 1980 peak, set before the Hunt brothers’ gambit went bust and inspired the Eddie Murphy comedy “Trading Places.”

Macron's decision to keep Lecornu as his premier is his latest gambit as he tries to see through the final year and a half of his presidential mandate.

To cancel an additional $4.9 billion, he revived a rarely used gambit called a “pocket rescission,” freezing the funds until they expired.

His gambit is that no one, including hard-liners on both sides of the war, will say no to him, and that the professionals will sort it out.

Democrats’ gambit to tie an agreement to end the federal government shutdown to an extension of the subsidies could now scramble those expectations.