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...calendar reform to approximately 250 students. The poll showed approximately 60 percent of students in favor of the reform, according to an April 1976 Crimson article entitled, “Students Upset With Calendar, Survey Shows.” While the poll was ultimately ignored by university administrators, the tactic survived a long hiatus to reappear in today’s campaign in modernized, online form. The current calendar referendum showed that 84 percent of the 3,467 respondents were in favor of change.UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 insists he won’t allow...
USAGE The phrase typically describes clusters in wealthy U.S. areas, not a ravaged Iraqi city. Baghdad's model is based on a system implemented during Vietnam. Those "hamlets" failed, but a similar tactic worked for France, which fought insurgents in Algiers...
...Neither tactic had much effect. Before one match, the then Sydney Roosters coach Ricky Stuart spent hours with his players analyzing Johns' moves on tape. Stuart thought he'd found a way to thwart him. But after 10 minutes' play, Johns had made fools of his opposition...
...Ahmadinejad's latest boast is more likely to be read as a political tactic than a statement of technological capability. "Iran has been creating facts on the ground as part of its negotiating strategy," says Paul Kerr, non-proliferation analyst at the Arms Control Association. "The further along the program, the more of it they will be able to keep in the future - so their thinking goes. Iranian officials have noted that other countries who pursued enrichment in the past got a lot of static from the international community at the early stages, but were later able to keep their...
...consider your imprisonment to be a politically motivated tactic to silence dissenters, especially bloggers, who now have an immediate and broad global distribution medium for their points of view...