Word: tactic
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...make a lot of money," acknowledges Jobs. No, it's a way to help sell iPods. Apple says sales of the music-storing, high-profit-margin palm-size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after iTunes' launch. Apple's approach borrows from a proven business tactic. "Westinghouse created radio shows to sell radios," notes Lee Black, an analyst with Jupiter Research. AOL Music takes a cut from songs sold through MusicNet, but its ka-ching comes from the 16 million visitors it delivers each month to advertisers like Coca-Cola...
...North "no choice" but to declare itself a nuclear power?and to prove the claim by conducting a nuclear test. Alarming as this sounds, it's standard operating procedure for North Korea, which has calculatedly tried to frighten the international community into appeasing it with aid. But the tactic may have backfired. When six-way talks resumed the next day, Kelly recounted to his startled tablemates what he'd been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly ruffled, Kim was obliged to repeat his threats. China, Russia, South Korea and Japan "heard what was said...
...journalist (although he was vague about what he had told Gilligan). Kelly, as a civil servant, was supposed to brief journalists on technical matters only, but he expected his confession to be kept confidential and was horrified to have his name nudged into the open by the government - a tactic Campbell blamed on the Defense Ministry, whose boss, Geoff Hoon, may end up being Downing Street's designated fall guy. Kelly was not only grilled by the Defense Ministry, but also hauled before two parliamentary committees. Lord Hutton is investigating whether Kelly's suicide was the result of undue hounding...
...from the field his most formidable opponent. (In the TIME/CNN poll, she edges out Schwarzenegger by 2 percentage points.) George Butler, a co-director of the Schwarzenegger film Pumping Iron, said that if Feinstein dropped out because she believed Schwarzenegger wasn't running, then she fell for the same tactic the bodybuilder used when he wanted to make his opponents believe he would stay out of the competition. "It looked to me like an old-time Arnold maneuver," Butler says. "What you're dealing with is one of the canniest operators who ever walked across the road in America...
...double murder. Yukos representatives say neither man has been formally charged, and dismiss the allegations as spurious. Yet things got worse. Yukos offices were subject to a 16-hour raid, and last week the government announced it would review the firm's tax payments, a favorite harassment tactic. Rumors began circulating that another Yukos official, this time a top member of the board, would be charged with homicide. The attacks on Yukos caused such an uproar that Putin's own economics adviser, Andrey Illarionov, spoke publicly of the prosecutor's office's "selective" approach to the law. Other respected figures...