Word: tactic
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...Harvard’s “obvious” obligation to pay higher wages, it noted the equally obvious fact that those with the leisure to engage in such philosophical musings must hesitate before demanding justifications from those who do not. The response reminded me of a tactic once described by Isaiah Berlin, of resolving the difficult questions of life by “so treating the questioner that problems which appeared at once so overwhelmingly important and utterly insoluble vanish from the questioner’s consciousness like evil dreams and trouble him no more...
...British subscribers to the TiVo DVR service took it as a personal insult when the BBC comedy Dossa and Joe was automatically recorded on their machines in a format they could not delete. The BBC, which struck a deal with TiVo to promote Dossa and Joe, admits the aggressive tactic was a bad idea. But it raises the bigger question of who dictates what DVR owners watch. One in five never watch commercials, which scares television executives who depend on advertising revenue. A group of media majors like AOL Time Warner have even sued to stop DVRS from automatically skipping...
Because racial-profiling claims are difficult to prove in court, civil rights activists urge parents to bypass the legal system and confront school officials directly. In some cities, the N.A.A.C.P. accompanies families to expulsion hearings. Another tactic popular among advocates is to gather a district's discipline statistics--which are collected by the government and can be obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request--and prepare self-published reports for local news broadcasts. After enough badgering, some districts have begun to bend their discipline codes. Last fall Chicago public-schools chief Arne Duncan directed principals to stop handing...
Meanwhile, things have gone from bad to worse. Allstate has now tried a similar tactic on a group of 650 life insurance agents, 80 percent of whom are over the age of 40, and the company has counter-sued some of its protesting employees for fraud. (Daly also refused to comment on “pending litigation...
...energy to public service. Channelling that drive into political activism will produce top-down change by electing candidates dedicated to youth concerns: the environment, clean elections, the future of social welfare programs. Combining community volunteerism with political engagement will solve both local and national problems more effectively than either tactic could alone. Economic dynamism and vigorous community service distinguish the Millennial generation. Apathy is not a Millennial characteristic. Instead of lamenting the selfishness and cynicism of young people, politicians and pundits must entice them into political service by demonstrating the power of laws to effect social change. Corporate advertisers target...