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...READY TO GO FOUR ROUNDS. Experts say you should be prepared to go four rounds (four back-and-forths) when negotiating. Steel yourself with the knowledge that collaborative negotiating - asking, "Can we find a way that this can work for both of us?" - can be a very effective tactic. It's also one that women tend to be better at than...
According to the Miami Herald, Florida attempted to revive its felon purge lists in 2004, again rife with inaccuracy, again disproportionately disenfranchising black voters. By the far the worst tactic was revealed by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who exposed that the state of Florida was “investigating” get-out-the-vote drives among blacks in Orlando by sending armed police officers into the homes of mostly elderly, African-American citizens who had filed absentee ballots. For someone to authorize the intimidation and terrorization of poor elderly black women who came...
...also gave NBC's prized young adults more of what they loved, persuading the Friends cast to come back for one more year and adding eight extra minutes to some episodes in a tactic he dubbed supersizing. But many of the debuts on his watch, from Emeril to Coupling, were duds, though Las Vegas has been a modest success. Last year's hiring of savvy programmer Kevin Reilly from FX (Nip/Tuck, The Shield) to run NBC Entertainment day to day could help make up for that weakness...
Whatistheinsurgents' purpose in going after humanitarian workers like Margaret Hassan, care's longtime country director in Iraq, who was taken hostage last week? As it turns out, the tactic has sometimes been used successfully by the Taliban in Afghanistan, forcing aid organizations to suspend operations and driving a wedge between the people and those trying to bring improvements to the country. That seems to be the thinking of insurgents in Iraq who have been targeting aid workers for abduction in recent months and who are now believed to be holding Hassan. "Please, please...
...time giving us a sense of his female characters—God forbid we lose some of the shots of scenery and endless montages of vineyards to make room for character development. So little time is devoted to his female characters that Payne is forced to use the cheap tactic of writing Maya a soliloquy about “the life of wines” in order to give her supposed spiritual depth...