Word: tactic
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DIVERSIONARY TACTIC...
...other policy analysts, notibly Walburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, say that policy makers' inattention to military history and scholarship has led them astray. For instance, Galbraith and Trainor both say the Administration is relying too heavily on the use of air power against the enemy--a tactic that proved largely ineffective during World War II and Vietnam...
Most Outing-rageous Pressure Tactic Some gay activists decided that the best way to halt gay bashing by public figures was to expose the sexual activities of critics who are homosexual themselves. This practice, known as "outing," caused deep embarrassment to several elected officials. Opponents warned that such tactics don't win support -- they destroy lives...
...chief defense lawyer Arthur Liman may have blundered in his insistence that Milken's crimes were merely technical ones, even after the financier pleaded guilty last April to six of 98 counts of securities violations and agreed to pay a record $600 million in fines and restitution. The defense tactic helped precipitate an unusual two-week presentencing hearing that showed Milken's operations at the now defunct Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert to have been riddled with unlawful activities. Significantly, the new testimony did nothing to refute the government's claim that Milken had encouraged Drexel employees under...
Their response uses a tactic that lawyers call "arguing in the alternative." It's as if an attorney defended a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "He didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender isn't dented, and if it is dented, it was dented before my client stole...