Word: tactic
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President Lawrence H. Summers and other administrators are justified in their efforts to prevent “any further disruptive behavior of this kind,” but they should try to do so with constructive dialogue—not threats. Intimidation is an inappropriate and ineffective tactic for the administration to use with fellow members of this academic community; problems can be better averted by talking to students rather than by sending intimidating e-mails via students’ senior tutors...
...common tactic Seltzer sees are “cease and desist” letters companies send out to users they say are violating copyright or trademark laws. Seltzer says that although some recipients are not in violation of the law, many choose to shut down the disputed site rather than face possible legal action...
...relationship. UMass representatives say that if RAs unionize the University may be forced to replace undergraduate RAs with graduate students—a measure that would help no one and would deprive all students of the undergraduate leadership RAs provide. Though some have said this is merely a bargaining tactic by the UMass administration, it appears to be a legitimate threat...
...bolster profitability Ford is planning some component sharing among the PAG models, a risky tactic. "You don't want customers saying a Jaguar is just a dressed-up Ford," Dunne says. To avoid that problem, Ford is sharing only those parts customers can't see or touch, like electronics. Says Harry Roegner, PAG spokesman: "Electronic architecture makes up a third of the cost of a car, and in the future it will be 50%. Do you see that cabling and wiring?" In another economy move, Ford is consolidating the backroom operations of Land Rover, Jaguar and Aston Martin...
...many who bemoan the evils of abortion, including the author of a recent editorial in these pages, a common tactic to elicit sympathy for their cause is employing harrowing imagery of the abortion itself. They talk, for example, of sharp hooks ladling the fetus out of the womb. Such an image tugs on any reader’s heartstrings; no one wants to see a baby impaled on a sharp hook. The problem is, however, that this picture is a gross misrepresentation of reality: the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester with a vacuum-like device?...