Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outburst of presidential wrath at a televised press conference last week was no accident. It was a deliberate, carefully calculated tactic in Carter's fight to salvage his priority package of energy legislation, which is being gutted in the Senate. It also reflected his genuine fear-and that of advisers like Energy Secretary James Schlesinger-that unless Congress acts soon to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, the inevitable consequences will be oil and gas shortages and a further mammoth, inflationary deficit in the U.S. balance of trade. The nation is now spending an appalling $45 billion a year...
...ceasing the state of war is not the same as "true peace." The Arabs insist that ending belligerency is the most they can exchange for an Israeli withdrawal to "secure and recognized borders" and that full normalization of relations will take time. The Israelis fear it may be a tactic by which they merely pause in their drive to destroy Israel...
...most formidable early foe of ratification appears to be Alabama's wily Democrat James Allen, a master of parliamentary tactics. He vows to smother the treaties with amendments that would, in effect, force the Administration either to abandon the accord or reopen negotiations with Panama. If this tactic fails, he will try to dilute the treaties with Senate-passed reservations, which would not be legally binding but would commit the U.S. in a moral way, with unpredictable practical effect...
Bunker and Herbert Hunt last week joined the pioneers of a new tactic in company takeovers. In March, Great Western United Corp., which the Hunts control, bid $15.75 a share for 35% of Sunshine Mining Co., a major silver producer, but Sunshine management never advised its stockholders whether to accept or reject the offer. So Great Western now has lowered...
...shortly after his emergence as Mao's prospective heir, Hua joined Chiang Ch'ing and her group of radicals in attacking Teng's "counterrevolutionary line." Since he became Chairman last October, however, Hua has gradually and tacitly conceded that the heretic was right. One Teng tactic that Hua has adopted has been a tough line on law and order, in an attempt to put down the widespread strikes and other civil disorders that have plagued his regime. The troubles are largely the result of anger and cynicism among workers who have been subjected to wild extremes...