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Jillson denies that threatening to sue is only a scare tactic meant to sway council votes. "When you are denied continually, you figure you have nothing to lose, so you'll be as outrageous as possible," she says...
...idea of an option to enroll in a section taught by a professor is a good one. However, the tactic of libeling teaching fellows to make the point is unkind and not constructive. I believe that you owe teaching fellows an apology, Mr. Templeton. Jay Phelan Graduate Student Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Environmentalists have traditionally used confrontation to call attention to their cause, but Sam LaBudde, a San Francisco biologist, chose a more subtle tactic: he became a spy. His mission was to document the indiscriminate slaughter of dolphins by fishermen using mile-long purse seines to catch tuna in the Pacific...
Julia R. Gordon '85, a second year law student, particularly objected to Clark's method of identifying protesters. "For them to take pictures of us is an intimidation tactic," she said, adding that newspaper photographers had been forcibly ejected from Griswold Hall...
...especially high numbers. But the OMB scaled back the White House proposals to $171 million; instead of targeting 20 areas, it recommended 10. Worse, OMB decided that a large part of the money would come from other health programs for poor women and children. That penny-pinching tactic sparked an outcry that could be heard all the way down Pennsylvania Avenue. "It is absolutely Mephistophelian to say that a child in Head Start should pay so that a child in Detroit can get more health care. Those are not choices," says Sara Rosenbaum, director of the health division...