Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...options in his struggle to survive Watergate. Last week he exercised a fresh one. Pushing his Special Counsel James St. Clair out front in a political as well as a legal role, Nixon embarked on a drive to save himself by appealing directly to the public and assailing the tactics of the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating his conduct in office. It was much too early to assess public reaction, but the impact on the House of Representatives was immediate. The tactic backfired, and impeachment sentiment rose...
...hrer. Conservative readers are already complaining that Reich maligns and distorts Nazism's objectives. The magazine's advance promotional blitz was particularly upsetting. It featured decorative political posters of the '30s, tiny swastika flags, and throwaway recordings of Nazi party speeches. That tactic, charged a West Berlin court prosecutor, tended to glorify the era, suggesting that Hitler's Reich was fun. After a Berlin court agreed, police raided newsstands throughout the country and confiscated the gewgaws. West German television stations barred Reich commercials when they appeared to stress the frivolous side of Nazism's adolescence...
While there is no evidence that Arrow is using his indecision as a negotiating tactic, he doesn't explicitly have to. The department cannot preemptorily reject the committee's recommendations without the risk of offending Arrow...
Jacques D. Rupnik, a second-year graduate student in Soviet studies, said that, after increasing police repression made public protest too dangerous a tactic, Czechs turned to widespread passive resistance...
Kidnaping businessmen and forcing their employers to pay ransom has become a prime tactic of radical political groups, especially against U.S. companies operating in Argentina and other Latin American countries. The vulnerability of corporations to this kind of attack by revolutionaries or run-of-the-alley hoodlums even in the U.S. has been starkly dramatized recently by the abductions of Publishing Heiress Patricia Hearst in California and Newspaper Editor John ("Reg") Murphy in Atlanta. As a result, more and more companies are being spurred into buying a form of insurance policy that was all but unheard of a few years...