Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shopping, weight and wardrobe wars. Years of sitting at fund-raising dinners have taught her how to look fascinated by a lecture on multiple warheads, all the while fantasizing, perhaps, about curling up with the latest murder mystery later on. When feigned interest fails, she employs another tactic. Says Rebecca Matlock, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "Barbara knows how to change the subject when Mrs. Gorbachev begins, you know, talking like she does." For her part, Raisa helped things along by not kicking the First Dog when Millie plopped down on her foot at Thursday...
...negative information. For example, a couple who want a baby are persuaded to take an older child and never told that several earlier placements have not worked out because of emotional problems. Though the motive is benevolent -- finding a home for a hard-to-place child -- Barth regards the tactic as unethical...
...being promoted directly to consumers in newspaper and magazine ads and even a few TV commercials. Drug companies and some physicians say the ads help educate patients and give consumers a chance to become more involved in choosing the medications they want. But many doctors deplore the marketing tactic. Argues Dr. Nancy Dickey of the American Medical Association: "Splashy ads with limited information are no substitute for four years of medical school and many more of professional training...
...busy week the Justices rule on a new desegregation tactic. -- Biographers fear the chilling effect of restrictive interpretations of the current copyright...
...speech claiming there had been no trade of arms for hostages in the 1985-86 weapons sales to Iran, Webb said Poindexter had destroyed a presidential finding precisely because it "put the lie" to Reagan's declaration. Attacking the credibility of a popular President was a risky tactic, but it worked...