Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merger, the trust fund put another $7,600,000 into Hayden, Stone, and that most of this money then went to Cogan (now renamed CBWL-Hayden, Stone Inc.) as a condition of the sale. "In other words," says FORTUNE, "the exchange chose to buy itself a rescue." But the tactic resulted in a curious arrangement: through the trust fund, FORTUNE notes, the exchange now holds an indirect interest in CBWL -a firm that it is supposed to regulate like any other member...
...levels as of October 15, but this is not happening. Philip M. Cronin, city solicitor and temporary rent control administrator, has instructed tenants that they are not authorized to pay lower rents until a permanent rent control administrator is appointed. Tenants feel that this is a ridiculous delaying tactic on the part of the city and have filed a suit against Cronin for incomplete administration and failure to comply with the provisions...
...Wooden Horse and The Great Escape. This time the P.O.W.s are Germans, and their guards are tommies. When the camp suffers a series of riots, British Intelligence decides to send an investigator, boozy, erratic Captain Connor (Brian Keith). Between drinks, the captain interprets the unrest as a diversionary tactic. There must be something deeper underfoot, he decides -something like a tunnel. From that moment, The McKenzie Break becomes a lethal contest of Irish hound and German hares led by the glittering Übermensch, Kapitan Schluetter (Helmut Griem...
...onto a couch that had been folded out. When one of Mayersohn's friends put his hands behind his back and his head between his knees, in what he thought was the standard position for someone who was being robbed, "Henry" was reported to be impressed with the tactic and demanded that the rest do likewise...
...Nixon decides his law and order message wasn't brought home strongly enough we can anticipate more provocation of the San Jose "This is what they really hate" style. The tactic is really an old one: tempt the opposition into some exceptionally sensational and yet fruitless act and then use it as an excuse to quash them. Hitler, for example, did it with the Reichstag fire...