Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others will go to the extreme of playing alone, he says, adding, "playing with yourself, so to speak, is pretty weird." Another tactic is talking about the theory of the game while away from the table, says Jacobsen. "There's not really a heck of a lot to say about foosball which makes talking about it so surprising," he adds...
...Disney's squeaky- clean employees ("who all wore Mickey Mouse watches and buttons," notes Hovland) testified in reverential tones. Sighs the attorney: "You'd ask them who designed this ride, and they'd say, 'Walt.' " Disney also requested an on-site visit for the jurors, a common company tactic, say lawyers. Hovland successfully objected, so Disney brought the cars to the courthouse parking lot instead. The jurors were entranced. Says Hovland: "Here I was trying to convince them that the cars were dangerous, and they were asking the judge if they could go for a ride...
...I.R.A.'s use of homemade mortars is an old tactic, but one that had met with little success in the past. The Newry station had once before been a target, in 1980, when shells missed the police post but injured 26 civilians near...
...public opinion at home, Reagan is resorting to a tactic used by all Presidents: taking his case straight to the country. He launched the p.r. drive in a radio address two weeks ago. Reagan called the contras "our brothers" and compared them to such "freedom fighters" as Lafayette, Steuben and Kosciuszko, the French, German and Polish officers who fought with the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. Secretary of State George Shultz joined the offensive at a congressional hearing last week. He declared that the U.S. had a "moral duty" to rescue the people of Nicaragua, who had fallen "behind...
What happens when five freshmen are crammed into a four-person room? They build a loft. Result--no more crowding. But five students in Canaday Hall's C-entry who tried this tactic said their plan may soon be foiled...