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...selling point, the tactic may be working...
...listened. "He was in a state of shock," says one participant. It was different an hour later during the "listen only" conference call with members. This time Newt talked a lot, but he made no sense. He blamed the election on the unions, on black turnout driven by scare-tactic radio ads, on the fact that the Senate had failed to take up the House's $80 billion tax cut, and of course on the media for hyping the Monica scandal and blotting out the Republican message. Said one member who listened in: "It was very lame and not credible...
...tactic that they are best at is a great, crisp passing game," Browning said. "They have a very smart team, that will capitalize on mistakes. We especially have to do a good job at limiting their outside shots, because that's how they beat us last time...
...another recent victory, an environmental coalition forced MacMillan Bloedel, Canada's largest lumber company, to stop clear-cutting and to stay out of pristine coastal rain forests. The tactic that worked? Getting MacBloe's big customers, such as Pacific Bell (whose phone books were made partly with old-growth wood), to ratchet up the pressure...
...with some texture added. There's lots of texture in the latest data dump. For example, Linda Tripp, as far back as 1994, was the employee from hell. Her new supervisor at the Pentagon wrote a memo noting how disruptive her "best defense is a good offense" tactic was; how she complained about her duties, her office, her parking space; how she was nasty to her co-workers and sent out a constant barrage of e-mail. Despite a starting salary of $69,427, she wouldn't work a minute after 5 p.m. when she learned professional staff weren...