Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rafferty called the appeals "a completely dilatory tactic designed to prevent the school from succeeding in its present location...
...first, I was skeptical. It was just another stall tactic for him not to give me a car. You see, every year my dad promises to give me a car. He still hasn't. So he's probably telling me to go to Europe so the car issue doesn't come up during Commencement...
Noriega's ability to hang on in the face of fierce opposition from the U.S. stems mainly from his tactic of buying or winning the support of a handful of key officers within the military. He has convinced some leaders of the 17,000- strong Panama Defense Forces of two dubious propositions: first, that the country's political opposition will eviscerate the PDF if it comes to power; second, that he alone represents the military's best interests. The soldiers, says a foreign diplomat, "view Noriega as the keystone in an arch; without him the arch will crumble...
Development and rent control were the two most controversial issues at the forum. While candidate Alan Bell called for a balanced approach to development, Wolf insisted on a stronger tactic, saying, "This city has got to make up its mind on whether it wants to sell out to development...
...They forced a crackdown by causing the leaders to lose face when Gorbachev visited. Problem is, the students weren't up on their Mao." Had they been, they might have come upon a 1927 essay in which the future Chairman identified atrocity as a desirable power-holding tactic. "To right a wrong," Mao wrote, "it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper limits being exceeded . . . To put it bluntly, it is ((sometimes)) necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror...