Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chrysler's first attempt to deal with the warrants was clumsy. It asked the Government in May simply to give them back. Washington refused. In July, Chrysler tried a new tack. It offered about $218 million for them, but again was rebuffed by Treasury officials who felt they were worth more. Finally the Government decided to put the warrants up for bidding on the open market...
...powers with peacekeeping forces in Lebanon must have moved beyond the unattractive military options that now face them--pulling out to let violence erupt immediately, or upping the peacekeeping pressure until that violence becomes stronger than any barrier. And they must avoid the other easy, backward-looking--and unfair--tack of blaming the violence on the Israeli pullout, so long clamored for, and trying hypocritically to reinvolve Israel in Lebanon's affairs. Instead, the U.S. must marshal all its resources of political analysis for a deeper look--even if it means helping Lebanon change its political structure. When curing...
...Free the Eagle, a 60,000-member group that spent more than $600,000 to fight the measure: "Every penny of the IMF money will flow right back to the banks, and they shouldn't be rewarded for getting us into this mess." Nader took a similar tack. Said he of the IMF'S activities: "The net effect is to allow large banks to pass off loan risks to public institutions while continuing to reap high loan profits...
...Irving Kristol and U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick. Last year in the same magazine, two social scientists concluded that the so-called media elite is decidedly more liberal than its national audience. But Michael Jay Robinson, who directs the Media Analysis Project at George Robinson, University, took a different tack. To Professor Robinson, "press copy." - not opinion - is the key. Bias that counts must be in the copy...
...while the politicians are still searching for parts for their 1984 gubernatorial, congressional, senatorial or presidential bandwagons that we can best direct their tack. The message that these hopefuls must take to heart is not simply that our current elected representatives are heinous. Rather, they must recognize that the economic problems now affecting the country are more deeply rooted than traditional slogans and trigger responses can handle. Responsible leaders must consider it their task to direct money and brain power toward a more centralized economic coordination system--one which will aid growing business, ease the transition for dying ones...