Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the dust cleared, the tactic seemed to have worked: a heavy turnout of 26,000 voters produced a 5-man Independent majority and also came within 88 votes of scuttling liberal councilor Francis H. Duehay...
...Brownmiller argues, women are usually the biggest losers-the targets of savage rape, mutilation and torture, or simply part of the natural rewards enjoyed by invaders. She also sees rape as a conscious military tactic to break the will of a civilian population (e.g., the actions of the German army in Belgium and France at the start of World War I). Gang rape appears throughout history as a recurring punishment. The Mundurucu Indians of Brazil prescribed gang rape for any woman who spied on the sacred musical instruments used by men. Missourians gang-raped Mormon women in driving the sect...
Although the final figures aren't in yet, it looks like the mini-campaign approach may be the best tactic for weak-economy fundraising; Yale, with a general fund drive currently in progress, fell 60 per cent, last year, an $18-million nosedive...
...priests, which stems from centuries of tradition, is not a belief, she argues. The government agencies are likely to be reluctant to take action against an Episcopal bishop, and if they decide they have no jurisdiction, the next step might be a court suit. Meanwhile, Schiess's tactic may soon be repeated by some others among the Philadelphia Eleven...
...year he impulsively gave Claudell Washington a midseason $10,000 raise for his hitting?thrifty is the word for Finley. The big annual battles center on money. Since baseball adopted arbitration for salary disputes two years ago, an astonishing one-third of the 46 players who have tried that tactic have been A's. In 1974 three won major victories: Jackson's salary soared from $75,000 to $135,000, Bando's from $60,000 to $100,000, Holtzman's from $66,500 to $93,0000. This year Bando and Holtzman took a beating. Bando, who thought he had earned...