Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intimated that he may not accept a second five-year term this fall unless the U.S. continues its financial support of the U.N. "I don't see any reason why I should preside over the collapse of the organization," he told the New York Times. His pressure tactic may have been ! unnecessary: the White House is now urging Congress to vote the full assessment...
...guests, who had been drinking cocktails in the Busch Reisinger Museum, to make their way over to Memorial Hall, where these 600 individuals, all clad in evening wear, were directed toward a back door. But that door was locked, putting an end to Harvard's attempt at a diversionary tactic. Eventually the guests found their way to where the protesters were blockading, and a confrontation ensued...
...Basically this was a harrassment tactic," said McLeod of Upton's withholding his registration materials. "I think that's all they were trying...
Then the Hunts took the offensive. The brothers filed two suits against their bankers, charging them with "conspiring to dismantle and ultimately destroy" Hunt interests. They asked for some $14 billion in damages. The maneuver made sense. Indeed, suing one's lenders is becoming an increasingly common negotiating tactic among debtors. It often forces the creditors to settle at terms more favorable to the debtors...
...goal of the Saudis' tactic was to drive high-cost non-OPEC oil producers out of business and thus limit energy exploration. To some extent, the swamp 'em and stomp 'em strategy has worked. In the U.S., for example, the number of active drilling rigs has fallen from 1,911 a year ago to fewer than 800 today...