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...With the public ever more on Clinton's side, Gingrich's tactic seems a little badly timed. Why go negative now? Because, says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney, the Speaker is taking the fall for the entire GOP. "To win in November, Republicans have to motivate their base." And the Lewinsky investigation is one heck of a wedge issue. Never mind about Newt 2000 -- "Gingrich is not as sure about running for President as he once was," adds Carney. Greater love hath no man than he lay down his candidacy for his party. With Gingrich promising to mention this...
...tactic succeeded admirably. Three Crimson players went out in par or better, and only freshman Kai Vasales posted a lower score on his second nine...
These include using a bait and switch tactic whereby they lure students in with high-profile faculty and then allow students to graduate "without seeing the world-famous professors or tasting genuine research...
...surprise. With the rallying cry "Save Social Security first," the President said in his State of the Union address last January that he was ready to take on the largest, most popular and most politically treacherous social program ever devised. His statement was easily written off as a blocking tactic aimed at stopping Republicans from plowing the budget surplus (now projected to be as high as $75 billion this year alone) into tax cuts. But last week, in the first of four promised forums on Social Security, Clinton proved he was serious by opening the door a crack...
Airlines like Northwest have routinely blown new competitors out of the sky with such tactics, on the theory that letting a low-cost start-up get started up is a bad strategy. Just look at what Southwest Airlines has done. But the tactic--matching low prices and adding more seats, even if it means absorbing losses--has virtually shut out new competition and kept fares high. "The most grievous government failure has been [not to] prosecute what appear to have been flagrant cases of predatory competition by major airlines against new competitors," says Alfred Kahn, the former Civil Aeronautics Board...