Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ordering bans on travel has been a favorite tactic in the 8-year-old guerrilla war, and the rebels often fire on any vehicle they encounter on the roads...
...cross fire. With journalists barred from the town, the exact number of noncombatant deaths was impossible to determine. Tiger spokesmen charged that the Indians had killed more than 250 civilians. ; Indian diplomats did not deny that civilian casualties had taken place, but blamed them mostly on the rebels' tactic of using the local Tamil population as human "shields." In the eastern province, meanwhile, Tiger commandos murdered a total of 21 Sinhalese civilians in two separate attacks and killed 20 Indian soldiers in a land-mine explosion...
...Books like Hite's encourage women to take the easy way out and just blame everything on men," charges Author Warren Farrell. He fears that the books are feeding into a "support system" in which women console one another by blaming men for their difficulties. He warns that this tactic will backfire. "This male-bashing makes women more suspicious and distrustful and demanding toward men," explains Farrell, "which causes men to withdraw, which causes women to get angrier...
David E. charged earlier this summer that opponents of rent control had sponsored David J.'s entry into the race to confuse voters, using a tactic as old as Bay State politics...
David E. charged earlier this summer that opponents of rent control had sponsored David J.'s entry into the race to confuse voters, using a tactic as old as Bay State politics...