Word: tactic
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...causing their website's disruption. "Do not be deceived by the blasphemous behavior of the crusaders," warned a statement on a hastily established website last week. An American intelligence official declined to comment on whether the U.S. had hacked al-Neda. But whoever did was borrowing an al-Qaeda tactic: find a direct channel to the sympathizers...
...company stock--a practice he now wants to ban. In 1989 Harken concealed losses by selling most of a subsidiary to an off-the-books entity controlled by company insiders. Bush was on the audit committee, which, at least in theory, approved the deal. It's the same tactic used by Enron--on a massive, more pernicious scale--before it imploded...
After a while, Yoder all but gave up on the courts--and then got creative. A decade earlier, he had been transferred out of Chester to federal custody to be prosecuted for sending threatening mail. So now he tried the same tactic. He says the letters weren't sincere and were intended only to get him sent to federal prison. That strategy may seem silly--or nuts--but a Chester psychologist wrote a report in 1993, before most of the letters were sent, that clearly outlined what Yoder expected from the letters and the consequent trip to federal prison...
...company stock-a practice he now wants to ban. In 1989 Harken concealed losses by selling most of a subsidiary to an off-the-books entity controlled by company insiders. Bush was on the audit committee, which, at least in theory, approved the deal. It's the same tactic used by Enron-on a massive, more pernicious scale-before it imploded...
Greenblatt and others have argued that a boycott undermines the “truth-seeking” goals of the academy and is not an appropriate tactic to indicate support for Palestinians...