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...declared an impasse in the talks and negotiations broke down (The State Agricultural Labor Relations Board charged 28 growers with refusing to bargain in good faith). The employers hired slick public relations men (who ran the Reagan and Ford campaigns) to improve their public image. A favorite public relations tactic is placing deceptive full page ads in major newspapers portraying growers as advocates for farm worker human rights and the union as a threat to worker liberty. These are the same human rights advocates who opposed toilets in the fields and abolition of the short-handled hoe, and fired thousands...
...TAKES STRONG STEPS TO RESTRAIN INFLATION, SHIFTS MONETARY TACTIC --Wall Street Journal, October...
...wasn't as though Dartmouth pulled any tricks out of a great green bag either. "They ran outside a little bit to start the game, but I think that was a diversionary tactic because they came right back to running from tackle to tackle, which is what they do best," Sabetti said. "They didn't show us anything we didn't expect. From my point of view it wasn't the coaches fault...
...David Frost vs. Henry Kissinger," said William Small, president of NBC News. "It was supposed to be an interview with Henry Kissinger." Indeed, the unedited transcript reveals that the Interviewer talked more than the interviewee, always a bad sign. But Frost had felt all along that this verbal tactic would be essential. Said he: "To set up a detailed discussion of a subject like Cambodia, you have to start with a long question and then come back with sustained follow...
After Field provided a two-goal cushion, the Crimson switched to a defensive game-a tactic that worries MacAusland. "I'm a little concerned. Against Cornell and Penn we seemed to sit on our leads and not attack in the second half," she said...