Word: tactic
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...BREAK Think the credit-card interest rates you're paying are too high? You're probably right. So call the card companies and ask--simply ask--to have them lowered. More than half the time, that tactic will work. Then call your phone companies and ask to be moved to the best plans for your needs. And call your home and auto insurers and raise your deductibles. Those calls alone will get you a good part of the way toward your...
...compromised by the revelation of Franklin's name and other details leaking out about the scandal. "We may never know what really happened or how big and wide it was," says a bureau official. Using Franklin to make more cold calls on the I.N.C. case isn't a promising tactic either...
...detente with the Soviet bloc - Ostpolitik - Brandt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Three years later he was brought down, as other leaders have been, by a spy scandal and a sex scandal. (Oddly, he didn?t fabricate a war on a weak and unthreatening country. That tactic doesn?t get you impeached; it may get you a second term...
...when Kerry spoke to the VFW two days later, he attacked Bush's position, using an argument with some merit but of microscopic import in the midst of a presidential campaign: he said it was a "hasty" and "political" plan and certainly not a good negotiating tactic to withdraw troops from Korea while we are trying to get the North Koreans to drop their nuclear program...
...that closed up shop included tobacco giant Surya Nepal, whose taxes account for up to 4% of the government's revenue; others ceased operation voluntarily, fearing they would be targeted next. Enforced by the threat of "action" against any who defy the Maoists' orders, the moves signal a new tactic in a conflict that has already claimed 10,000 lives: to bring Nepal to its knees economically. "It could be a disaster," warns Bishwambher Pyakuryal, political-science professor at Tribhuvan University. "A contraction is inevitable if this situation continues...