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...surplus the fund is currently running to pay down the national debt over the next decade or so, putting the economy on sounder footing and freeing up more money (which now goes to debt servicing) to keep the fund going a while longer. It's a stall tactic, but one with tangible overall benefits in the meantime...
...will soon be back at the table. In New York City, TW has offered to make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed under a completely unfair burden...
...ECOMOG withdrew recently, complaining that the mission was too costly, the RUF became emboldened. The peace deal was supposed to mean giving up their control over the diamond fields, but that wasn't something an exceedingly brutal army - which had adopted systematic dismembering of the civilian population as a tactic of war - was willing...
Since direct challenges to Roe v. Wade have repeatedly been struck down by the Supreme Court, anti-abortionists have adopted the tactic of attacking procedures one-by-one. The D&X procedure is an easy target. It is infrequently used and lends itself to graphic depictions by anti-abortionists in now-famous cartoon drawings of the procedure sent to members of Congress. However, its alternative, dilation and evacuation (D&E), the typical abortion procedure performed in the first and second trimesters, is equally gruesome. In fact, the two procedures are so similar that the wording in the Nebraska...
...1970s, states like Tamil Nadu still set birthrate targets and quietly instructed health-care workers to urge patients to be sterilized. The policy was often aimed at women rather than men. In fact, nurses earned bonuses based on how many sterilizations they encouraged. But this more subtle tactic never really worked. Patients balked, and the bonuses led more often to falsification of records than to a lower birthrate...