Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours or more to reach cruising speed (approximately 16 knots). Stopping is no less difficult. Even with props reversed, the steel leviathan will frequently coast up to ten miles before coming to a dead halt. A tanker can reduce that distance to less than two miles by a tactic called "slaloming"-turning in one direction and then in the other, like a racing skier...
Over the years, the Japanese left has rioted to express its opposition to the presence of American bases in Japan under the U.S.-Japan mutual-security treaty. All to little effect. Now the protesters have a more peaceful-and potent-tactic. Since Aug. 5, when a group of Socialist demonstrators sat down in front of a convoy of tank transporters hauling five U.S. M48 tanks, the Army has been unable to move any armor into or out of its huge depot at Sagamihara, where military equipment is repaired for use in Viet Nam. Though some 200 tanks and armored personnel...
...chance of getting the campaign focused on its real target, Richard Nixon. The worst thing about McGovern's performance was not that he was compelled to drop Eagleton, but that he at first rushed into "1,000%" support of him, only to waver toward a somewhat devious tactic of undercutting the man. In the end, McGovern proved coldly tough...
...achievement outside of athletics is highly debatable at best. Some measure of chauvinism is understandable, but to interpret physical feats as evidence of sociological or ideological superiority is as absurd as trying to settle a United Nations debate with a foot race up First Avenue. And the tactic can backfire. At Berlin, Hitler had to sit and squirm as an American black-the legendary Jesse Owens-clearly outshone Germany's Nordic "supermen" to win gold medals in four events. Still, rampant nationalism continues to mock the purported ideals of the Olympics. Since 1952 the focus has been mainly...
...again. The Federal Reserve governors have already taken one step to resist such pressure. In recent months the board adopted a new operating method to influence the money and credit available to the economy. The method focuses on a new target: bank reserves against private deposits. In effect, this tactic emphasizes new precision in the control of vast aggregates of money and puts less stress on influencing specific interest rates. Thus the board is purposely paying less attention to interest rates in its day-to-day decisions...