Word: tactic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even if Republicans are right and the Democrats' tactic is doomed, success may not be Reid's goal. Democrats (and Republicans) across Washington have been buzzing for days about the increasingly lopsided poll ratings on Bush and the war - numbers that have led Democrats to conclude that there is simply no downside to bringing up vote after vote on the war in order to force Republicans to choose which side of Bush and Iraq they...
...same stock at 32,000-I wish I'd found you before." Trung (who asked not to be identified by his full name) chuckles and shakes his head. "These two are probably the same person using different nicknames to drive up the price," he explains. It's a tactic Trung knows well-he says he has used it himself. In his day job at a water utility, Trung earns just $300 per month, but since mortgaging his parents' house to raise capital last year, he claims to have raked in about $20,000 in profits from online share trading...
...transatlantic market, buoyed by corporate travel, can keep a lot of planes in the air, but should the traffic slow, the incumbents could always resort to price wars, a tactic they've used in the past to shoo away upstarts. The upstarts, on the other hand, need new markets, which could test their operating capability. "EOS is still the gold standard, but Silverjet is proving that the alternative carriers are here to stay," says Michael Holtz, owner of the Smart Flyer, a high-end travel agency in New York City. As a publicly traded company, Silverjet will be under pressure...
Harvard has a new tactic to combat college drinking—it’s called peer pressure. The brand new Office for Alcohol and Other Drug Services (AODS) has championed a “social norms” approach to alcohol abuse, theorizing that since “college students tend to grossly overestimate the number of their peers who engage in high-risk alcohol consumption,” providing data will correct this misconception and make people think twice before drinking. Great, except that if anyone stops and thinks twice at these numbers, it becomes abundantly clear that...
...happen. Unlike their fixed-wing brethren, helicopters tend to be slow, which on the battlefield is another word for vulnerable. Beyond that, they tend to fly low, hugging the contours of the terrain in what pilots called nap-of-the-earth flight (that's what upsets unpracticed bellies). The tactic certainly reduces the helicopter's exposure to enemy fire from below, but it doesn't eliminate it. Helicopter pilots speak warily of "golden BBs" that can bring down their bird. There are a fair number of bull's-eyes on those spindly mechanical beasts - rotor blades, fuel systems, driveshafts, hydraulic...