Word: tactic
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...failed, but the high court may agree to examine and rule on the plan's legality after Kinder actually assigns cases. "I researched the books," says the judge, "and I cannot find a thing that says I can't do what I'm doing." His tactic has attracted calls from other judges who may follow his example...
...White House quickly denied any such wavering of intent. "Why should the President compromise?" asked Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. "He is doing fine standing still." Vice President George Bush declared that Reagan's program must be passed "unsalamied"-meaning that it should not be subjected to the "salami tactic" of paring it down slice by slice. Bush also implied that Reagan would veto a bill cutting taxes for one year only. The President, in a statement issued on income tax day, April 15, asserted that Americans would go on paying "too much" in taxes unless his full plan...
...surprisingly, the Crocker plan drew sharp rebukes from the six "front line" states that support black nationalism in southern Africa. They see the proposal on Namibia as a stalling tactic designed to buy time for South Africa. Representatives of the six nations meeting in Luanda, Angola, jointly condemned "the U.S. intention to consolidate its relations with South Africa" and called for the immediate revival of the U.N. plan for Namibia "without delay, evasions, qualifications or modifications...
...even congressional allies. Last fall, the N.R.A. repeatedly tried to attach a bill loosening gun regulations onto a proposed, long-overdue revision of the federal criminal code. Several senatorial supporters of the N.R.A., including Republicans Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would be sunk by this extra weight. Neither the new code nor the N.R.A. bill ever made it to a Senate vote. Two other N.R.A. supporters, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas and Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, were annoyed by the lobby...
Certainly, Marchais's current campaign has been as paradoxical as his 1978 performance. His 131-point economic program is predictably radical, calling for the nationalization of 23 major companies and confiscation of all individual earnings of more than $100,000 a year. But his most controversial tactic is one that might have been expected from the far right rather than the left: the deliberate fanning of racist sentiments against African immigrant workers...