Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced that they would strike no more than three lines. They chose their first target carefully. Union Pacific is one of the nation's most profitable railroads. Not unexpectedly, the railroads condemned the strike against Union Pacific as an attempt to "whipsaw" them. "The purpose of this union tactic," said Rail Spokesman John Hiltz Jr., "is to force inequitable settlements on one or a few carriers at a time and then extend the process to other victims...
...acre suburban site, a plan now blocked by a dispute over the hiring of minority construction workers. Meyerson also streamlined Buffalo into eight faculties, each with its own provost and budget. With rare aplomb, he charmed campus radicals while pioneering the now widely used tactic of getting courts to enjoin seizers of campus buildings. Meyerson's diplomatic tal ents fit Pennsylvania's needs precisely. Despite its Ivy League aura, the 230-year-old university is crammed into a downtown Philadelphia campus, where the new president will have to reconcile both student rebels and resentful blacks in the surrounding...
...attempt to convince workers of the offer's merits by conducting vigorous "employee marketing" campaigns. Union loyalists have long regarded this strategy as an attempt by the company to fix wage rates unilaterally, but the many unions representing G.E. workers were too divided to challenge the tactic effectively. Then last fall they formed a coalition and won the unconditional support of the whole labor movement for a battle...
...another law is the necessity of diversity. The more different species there are in an area, the less chance that any single type of animal or plant will proliferate and dominate the community. Even the rarest, oddest species can thus be vital to life. Variety is nature's grand tactic of survival...
MORE than 100 years after Appomattox, Mississippians found General Robert E. Lee's words newly poignant and appropriate. For over a decade they had used every delaying tactic they knew in their battle to maintain their tradition of educational apartheid. Then, last October, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to segregation in 30 of the state's school districts. Last week Mississippians in 27 of the districts accepted, if not defeat, then at least the reality of binding law. As white parents watched in anger, despair or simply resignation, black children entered once segregated schools...