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This is a trend which seems only to be growing. When Joe Biden shows passion, we prove our political acumen by pointing out that he is playing to the cameras. If a protest happens to take place during Commencement week, we prove our intelligence by terming it a publicity tactic. Each action, we all know and repeat knowingly to one another, is merely a crass effort at self-advancement...
...fact, the U.S. Customs Service and Coast Guard have more effective aircraft for this job (Black Hawk helicopters and Cessna and Falcon jets) but they need more of them for better coverage. One other practical tactic: the use of tethered balloons with look-down radar (called aerostats). Seven, already authorized by Congress but not yet operational, could cover the border and part of the Bahamas...
...liberal assault forces, in league with the media. They come on, in his view, in a set piece of political attack. First, a selected victim is branded as controversial. Then he is labeled an embarrassment to the Government. Finally it is said the fellow has to go. If that tactic proceeds much further unchallenged, Meese believes, such forces will soon paralyze any Government. "I am going to continue the leadership of the Department of Justice," he says. "I am going to wait until the prosecutor's report is issued, and then I am going to stand up as long...
...their jobs, supervisors used in other ways could have been the most effective weapon the administration has against unionization. They could have made the workplace pretty unpleasant for co-workers in the weeks preceding the election, bullying them and blaming the union for disrupting previously cozy relations. This tactic has been an effective deterrent to union support in other campaigns and in the last elections at Harvard, when HUCTW organized and lost in the Medical Area...
...most flagrant example of this tactic is the Council's recent aborted attempt to take a stand in Lisa Schkolnick's suit against the Fly Club. The Council agreed to give Schkolnick $250, but at the same time it refused to endorse her suit. More recently, it rejected a weaker resolution which urged the clubs to admit women. As a result of its studied ambivalence, the Council can count on being on the winning side of the final club dispute--no matter which side wins...