Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the warning, an Iraq-Kuwait war is considered unlikely. U.S. officials believe Saddam's verbal blast is part of his campaign to dominate the Arab world and a hard-nosed tactic to force other oil producers to back Iraq when OPEC ministers hold their biannual summit this week in Geneva. Still, officials do not dismiss the possibility that Saddam might back his words with action...
...such abortions nearly impossible to obtain. Says the National Right to Life Committee's spokeswoman, Susan Smith: "We do everything we can to eliminate abortions and to prevent funding for rape and incest, but where it is inevitable we lobby for tight reporting requirements to prevent fraud." The new tactic was explained at the National Right to Life Committee convention in Sacramento last month by Scott Fischbach, the group's field coordinator: Laws that ban some abortions, he said, "can lead up to the point of stopping them...
...Bell's actions will do nothing to encourage Black students to apply to Harvard University. With a suffering Afro-American Studies Department, Professor Bell's actions only continue to dissuade prospective high school students from applying to or attending the College. There is no question that the publicity tactic Dr. Bell has chosen is persuasive indeed. Qualified Black college graduates will be "persuaded" to look elsewhere for a law school with a better reputation than the oversimplified one that Professor Bell has publicized by his action...
...college, he joined ONRC in the effort to silence chain saws. In 1981 the young activist filed the first administrative appeal in the Northwest against a Forest Service timber sale. By 1988 he was masterminding 220 separate appeals in a single month, creating a legal logjam. The tactic proved so costly to industry that a House committee summoned Kerr to Washington for a special hearing, at which he was attacked by Oregon Representative Bob Smith, among others. Yet by raising his profile and drawing national attention to the issue, the politicians unwittingly played into Kerr's hands...
...Join hands and jump off the cliff together. So goes Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's scenario for a bipartisan federal deficit reduction. The tactic . proved its worth in California. Proposition 111 had the support of the gubernatorial candidates of both parties and more than 250 business, labor and social-service groups that spanned the political spectrum. Bipartisan support reduces a politician's vulnerability to attack by opponents as a tax-happy spender. In Washington Democrats insist they need that cover from Republicans -- but Republicans fear they would be exposed to primary challenges from even more conservative candidates back home...