Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stationing the Marines in Lebanon was a mistake, the inept handling of last week's policy reversal only compounded the error. The new tack, moreover, seemed no more sensible than the old, and it may stand no better chance of succeeding. "Who is running the show in there now?" Major Dennis Brooks, the Marine spokesman, asked last week, cocking his head toward Beirut. He did not know, nor, alas, did the policymakers in Washington. -By James Kelly...
...President Reagan has taken a different tack in his stand on educational issues, stressing the important role states have to play in combatting drug use and violence in schools and reinstating "traditional roles." In his televised announcement two weeks ago that he was seeking reelection, Reagan said that schools must "find room for God," a reference to his efforts to bring voluntary prayer back to the classroom...
...million-a-year stock-repurchase plan as a way of boosting the company's market price, the Petersen-dominated board of directors rejected the idea because it would have increased the Getty family's stake to about 53%. Indeed, the board took just the opposite tack, deciding in early October to issue new shares that would dilute Getty's influence...
...must admit such a U.S. strategy would not necessarily prove successful. Were detente still with us, the Soviets would be even more likely to give a little on Syria in hopes of gaining a little elsewhere in its dealings with the United States. It is precisely such a tack that Henry A. Kissinger and former President Richard M. Nixon flirted with concerning Vietnam by getting Moscow to pressure Hanoi...
...Americans got borsch and blinis. He refused to flirt with their wives. With the British Ambassador he would pretend to be a hick just down from the villages, and speak only in an obscure regional dialect; in the case of the United States, however, he took the opposite tack and addressed their legate in incomprehensibly florid French. Embassies would constantly be subjected to power cuts. Isky would open their diplomatic bags and personally add outrageous remarks to the Ambassadors' reports...