Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confrontation tactic itself, in addition to the dearth of organizing to implement it, also undermined the Union's position. Last year's actions were one-shot affairs: undergraduates found it much easier to stay away from class for one day instead of joining in a boycott which conceivably could have lasted for weeks. As a consequence, many probably declined to commit themselves to this year's action...
...London Times called the budget "more valorous than prudent" and added: "It is certainly incautious, and we fear that it is ill-judged." To most political observers, it seemed to be a stopgap tactic for holding consumer support while the government tries to make its stern economic controls work. As one economist put it, "The budget is really a piece of fiscal sugar to sweeten public acceptance of Stage...
Gibson said that Harvard, along with a coalition of universities, will attempt to coerce the Office of Education to change its present stand. He said that should this tactic fail, the University will send a lobby to Washington to encourage legislation leading to the ban's repeal...
...slot. The mystery ended when a librarian spotted SCM's regional sales manager with a companion who was tinkering with the machine. Olivetti's local marketer, Copico, sued SCM and introduced evidence that the corporation (formerly Smith-Corona) had a policy of using sabotage as a sales tactic-and had said so at two sales meetings. Copico also pointed out that SCM has been caught and assessed $150,000 in an earlier sabotage case. This time the jury decided to stiffen the penalty: it awarded $20,000 in compensatory damages and a cool $1,000,000 in punitive...
FURTHERMORE, A LIMITED journalist's privilege could, in effect, limit the practice of muckraking journalism to precisely those media organizations which are most susceptible to economic pressure from Washington. The emerging tactic of the Nixon Administration against the free flow of information is not one of the attacking journalists in the courts, but a policy of wooing the businessmen who head media corporations with promises of economic security. This strategy is most evident in the Whitehead bill for Federally-licensed television stations, where local channels are offered longer five-year licenses in exchange for an end to "ideological plugola...