Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bugging. The entire idea of bugging I find personally repulsive. I understand that wiretapping under court surveillance for specified matters of national security and against organized crime is a tactic that has led to some very good results, which could not have been obtained otherwise. But surreptitious wiretapping for political reasons is offensive to me. I would never sanction listening in on somebody else's personal conversations...
...Tactic. Indeed, it may reach further than even some pornography reformers expected. In Utah, which has one of the nation's toughest anti-obscenity laws, officials felt sufficiently bolstered by the new ruling to announce that any attempt to show Last Tango in Paris, which had been scheduled to open in Salt Lake City, would result in arrests and the confiscation of the film. "It will never be shown here without undergoing lots of prosecution," promised Deputy Attorney General Robert Hansen. Last Tango's explicit sex scenes have, in fact, stirred enormous controversy for months, but some legal...
...Women's Rowing Olympic Committee, and Baker expects that the crew will be able to raise $3000-$4000 from the parents of the nine rowers. But from there its touch and go. Baker said that he is not being allowed to conduct a mass mailing for funds, a tactic that was quite successful for the 'Cliffe crew program during the season...
...President Nixon's recent admission that he authorized his staff to curb Watergate investigations for reasons of "national security" is the old red-herring tactic...
...tone of the meeting was hostile to Union demands. By its end, all professors had tacitly enlisted in Harvard's valiant struggle to made ends meet in the face of the government's indiscriminate cutbacks. In this context, graduate students' efforts to gain more funds sounded like a selfish tactic that merely served to split the ranks in the good fight...