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...Tactic...
...Bush's tactic is to "kick sand in the public's eye," as a New York Times staff editorial charged. It is a simple ploy to gain more votes, not the beginning of a program to help women protect their right to an abortion...
...Wednesday, the Faculty Council voted to dump its ultimatum to the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) in favor an ageold stall tactic: they want to study the problem further. Specifically, the council gave its committee on ROTC an extension in preparing its report until next fall...
...tactic did not work well: the killer's identity is not clear, and the movie easily led the box-office sweepstakes in its first weekend with a $15 million take. But more protests were planned for the Oscar ceremony. Activists have successfully forced their concerns about gay images in the movies out into the open. They argue that all the onscreen mayhem is inciting real-life violence against members of their community. A five-city survey conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute reports a 31% increase in gay-bashing incidents last year, including a jump...
...side of the battle are many medical researchers who think the experiments could lead to therapies for many diseases. They have been joined by an unusual coalition that includes victims of such diseases as Parkinson's and even by quite a few converts from the pro-life camp. Their tactic is to separate the issue of fetal-tissue research from the debate over abortion. As they see it, fetal cells are equivalent to vital organs that are available to save lives but are now being thrown away...