Word: tactic
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...fundraisers weren't the usual suspects from the development office-they were a group of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) student volunteers making a pitch for the PBHA Centennial Campaign, and the luncheon was a far cry from going door to door to Cambridge residents, a common PBHA fundraising tactic...
...This simply won't be an effective tactic in causing the University to reopen a question it has already engaged in very comprehensively and very seriously," Grogan says...
...that he was referring to his concern that there may be enforcement concerns in the future should the United States enter any other agreements with North Korea. Publicly doubting the credibility of the parties even before they get to the negotiating table is always a good tactic for "getting to yes" on the peace settlement Bush claims to endorse...
...also not past the issue of race and racial discrimination in our society, but no one should propose reopening the debate on whether or not black people are inferior to white people, or whites to blacks, in order to figure out how to coexist. I daresay again that that tactic might be more divisive than helpful...
Like the Amish in Witness, these Socialists in Gallagher's extended family experience life more fully because they believe so deeply. Devoted readers of the Daily Worker, Stalinists to the end ("the pact with Hitler was a tactic, darling"), they sometimes look ridiculous but steadily buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black...