Word: tactic
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...kidnapping of journalists is a well-known, if uncommon, terrorist tactic. But like all terrorism, kidnapping hurts the cause of those employing it more than it helps. The group holding Pearl should realize that the best way to get out its message—and its grievances with America—is not to capture journalists but to talk to them...
...stir up the voters, but framing the debate around the Enron scandal will. Republicans disagree, arguing the public still perceives Democrats as the big spenders and the GOP as the party of fiscal responsibility. "Enronization" won't have legs, GOP operatives assure me. "It's kind of a cute tactic," says a senior House Republican aide. "But it will be viewed more as a politicization of Enron and as taking advantage of their employees who have been victimized." Perhaps. But Enron has been an unnerving reminder to many of how economic gratification in the present can be risky for financial...
...such a sizable stake to cause it so much potential inconvenience? One theory is that the Springer family wants to reacquire shares in their company that Kirch bought in the late 1980s during a failed takeover attempt, and are exercising the "put" option as an arm-twisting tactic. But Kirch?s shares in Axel Springer are pledged to the banks, as collateral for other loans. For some analysts, the Springer move is just good commercial sense. "If you have a chance to sell assets at far above market price, you do it," says Oliver Rupprecht, an analyst at MM Warburg...
...White House should have done, and still can do, is say, okay, we still believe our claim of executive privilege, but things have changed in this case, and so now we're willing to make this information available." This is the "we're bigger people than you are" tactic of backtracking gracefully...
...superstars. Both women earned degrees from Berkeley (Wallerstein is also a senior lecturer emeritus there). Hetherington is 75, Wallerstein 79; both are in marriages that have lasted 40-plus years. But their methods vary sharply. Hetherington amassed data on thousands of kids; Wallerstein intimately interviewed about 60. One tactic is broad but shallow, the other deep but narrow...