Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's best strategy is to do as it did last time: score early to prevent Dartmouth from building any confidence. That tactic helped the Crimson to a 6-3 victory over the Big Green in Hanover...
...front-runner, Tsongas had the most to lose in the debate. He chose to open by lashing out at Bush, a tactic he maintained throughout the evening. The candidate, who has billed himself as pro-business though others have called him economically conservative, also took a firmer stand on trade policy...
...every opportunity, Tsongas reinforces his image as Mr. Candor: "I have only one horse to ride -- truth. If I give that up, I'm just a Greek from Massachusetts who has had cancer." This tactic extends to volunteering the fact that he required the assistance of a media coach to spice up his oatmeal style. In the past month his performance has risen from dreadful to mediocre, but his TV spots still use an announcer's voice rather than his drone...
...minute "war comedy" takes place in 1958 during the French-Algerian war. Each character serves more as a symbol than as a human being; this tactic transforms the play from strict drama into a parable...
...about a topic that had been, its author argued, unfairly closed. Much like this fall's 56-page Peninsula issue, the the Holocaust ad cloaked its aggressive position by carefully appealing to "free speech" sensibilities--an appeal that often finds its greatest supporters among the journalism community. Such a tactic offers, as Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson noted in yesterday's Boston Globe, "a grammar of reason with a rhetoric of hostility." Peninsula attacked homosexuality and homosexuals, but did so with what its authors termed "charity" and "concern;" thus, the assault was made more powerful...