Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally, Harvard seemed to want to represent itself as simply anxious to comply with the law. The University was implying that it was opposing the establishment of a union in the Medical Area, only because it would be an inappropriate bargaining unit, making it appear that its tactic was also its motivation. The absurdity of this position is readily apparent, since all that had to happen for the Medical Area to become an appropriate bargaining unit was for Harvard not to oppose the union...
With this in mind, Assad had suspected party dissidents rounded up on the eve of last week's Sixth National Baath Party Congress. The tactic worked very well. Assad, already President of the Republic and Commander in Chief of the armed forces, was re-elected to the 21-man National Command of the Baath Party and to its secretary-generalship. That should give him a relatively free hand to pursue his policies-if only he can keep harmony within his own family. His brother, Lieut. Colonel Rifaat Assad, 34, who was elected for the first time to the National...
...mother, Gloria, and later stressed by Pancho Segura, the wily pro who has been Connors' instructor for the past six years. "Never let a ball come to you" is Segura's First Law. Charge the ball, he insists, lean into it and meet it on the rise. That attack tactic maximizes power and control and allows the player to move toward the net after the shot...
...During the year of the Strike. Lipset writers, SDS had decided that in order to top its feats the year before at Columbia it would have to act at Harvard in a way "deliberately designed to provoke authority to be repressive." The forcible occupation of University Hall was the tactic decided upon, and the Pusey administration , Lipset suggests, responded just as the radicals would have wanted it to when Pusey called in outside force to evict the protesters. (The outrage of students and sympathetic faculty to the Bust was predictable, Lipset claims, because a similar reaction followed Josiah Quincy...
...thinks administrators "let programs hang" as long as possible, so that students will look for jobs elsewhere and remove the pressure on the government offices to hire them. Come June 15, programs may hire a few of the people who have not found other work. Through this delaying tactic, "some people will still have jobs, and the agency can say they've still had a program." Ruemelin concluded. Nonetheless, many students will have been left...