Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration has been scheduled in connection with the trial of Bobby Seale. All these factors-the bankruptcy of the old-style tear gas battles; the widening of support for violence; the new excitement of looting (which, like it or not, proved in the long run to be a successful tactic of the 1965 ghetto riots); the feelings of desperation; the demonstration's direct target (such specificity was lacking here); and New Haven's volatile ghetto-can lead to no other outcome than wholesale violence. Who will shoot first-police, white demonstrators, black demonstrators-is problematic...
...ANYONE who witnessed the bricks, riot sticks tear gas, and terror of last Wednesday night, the drawbacks of streetfighting as a tactic of dissent are evident. Some of the costs were immediate and obvious: the injuries to bystanders, demonstrators, and police: the destruction of property without a clear purpose: the rising tolerance for violence which such episodes bring...
...better judgement about how to organize other black people than I did. If black people thought that they needed to defend themselves with guns, then I would have to respect that. I realized that I had liked Dick Gregory because he made me feel comfortable. I had like his tactic of boycotting record and cigarette companies until the war ended. But I liked it because it was respectable, not because I thought that it would work. I knew that I would have to overcome that...
...were a squirrel rifle and barked instructions. The first round was wide of the mark. So was the second. Using "Kentucky windage," Vang Pao made another adjustment. The third round scored a direct hit. Later, he knocked out an enemy machine-gun nest with the same tactic...
Coping with obsolescent executives, says Wayne M. Hoffman, chairman of Flying Tiger Lines, is "the toughest job of top management." U.S. business often goes to extraordinary lengths to shield its failures. Next to early retirement with an extra-generous pension, the most common tactic is to move the failure to an impressive-sounding job that has no content. In fact, says Harvard Business Professor Abraham Zaleznik, he is "vice president of nothing." The man with a lofty title, a high salary and little to do may seem to be in an enviable position, but few enjoy it. "I have talked...