Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the possibility still remained that the Soviets might use military force to bring the Poles to heel, Olszowski suggested another tactic that Moscow might very well employ: drastically reducing aid and trade, which would leave Poland's crippled economy completely paralyzed. "The Soviet Union can cope without imports from Poland, but Poland cannot do without Soviet supplies," Olszowski declared...
...squeeze tactic could cause I more problems than it solves. Says one I U.S. State Department expert: "Of all ithe approaches to conquer the Poles, that has to be one of the most ludicrous. All it will do is make the Poles even more angry. It will increase the chances of having them declare a civil war." Provoking Poland's economic demise could also hurt other East bloc nations, whose economies are closely interlocked. Because of military reasons, the Warsaw Pact nations also do not want Poland to plunge into chaos; the country occupies a strategic position...
Harvard coach Bob Scalise, who scouted Saturday's game, refuses to take any chances against the Tufts team. Scalise will have Honorable Mention All-American fullback Kelly Gately shadow Raffin. This tactic worked very well in the Crimson's 4-2 triumph over Springfield College Friday night when Gately completely shut down Chief winger Vicki Hebeler...
...time. If they wait too long in the meat line, they may find no fresh bread, milk or cheese. Some shoppers solve this problem by having someone hold a place for them in one line while they scurry over to another shop and queue up for something else. That tactic has its risks. If the first line moves too fast, the shopper might find that he has lost his place when he gets back...
...former was the outwardly arrogant, inwardly fuming son of a rich Jewish family, ever conscious, despite his enrollment at Cambridge, of subtle, painful discrimination. He would beat these gentlemen at their own avocation-amateur sport. If that goal required paying a professional coach (wonderfully played by Ian Holm), a tactic that was against the code if not the formal rules, so be it. Liddell was of an entirely different breed. The modest and pious son of missionaries, he ran, as he saw it, for the glory of God. If his faith told him that he must not break the Sabbath...