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Surveillance at the workplace is also a concern for an increasing number of jobholders. Drug testing is just the most publicized variety. One increasingly common tactic is to listen in on employees who deal with the public over the phone. Reservation clerks, phone-company operators and anyone who takes phone orders for catalog companies and telemarketers are all likely to be monitored. So are the customers they talk to. The Communications Workers of America, a union active in the fight against such surveillance, estimates that 6 million American workers are subject to monitoring. Surveillance at BellSouth, a group of phone...
...many, cooperating with other similarly minded candidates has been an effective tactic to pick up transfer votes...
...said the estimates are used as tactic to force faculties to be responsible for the upkeep of their buildings. "This way they don't defer on their maintenance and have the need for major repairs," Spiegelman said...
Pragmatic beyond his 36 years, Meles responds to trying circumstances is untried approaches. Take his tactic for dealing with tribal violence. Over the past few months, hostilities have raged between the Afars and Tigreans, the Gurages and Wolaytas, the Anuaks and Nuers, and the Oromos and Tigreans. Meles could try to pacify them all by force. Instead, he has approached tribal elders to find less drastic compromises. In the case of the Afars, for instance, he has asked the elders to designate which tribesmen should be armed. "To disarm them all is unacceptable to the Afars," Meles explains...
When that tactic didn't work, they called a meeting to be held on December 4, "and proposed a compromise--that scholars could look, but couldn't print what they see," Shanks said...