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Though there are no documented cases of wild bison infecting cattle with brucellosis (which causes cows to abort their calves), Montana in 1985 decided to fight the disease by letting hunters kill bison that wandered out of Yellowstone National Park. The tactic aroused a national outcry. In the worst slaughter, two winters ago, hunters killed 569 of the park's 2,700 bison...
Students like Goswami and Chaturvedi, however, saw the tactic as a cynical stunt aimed at winning Singh a new constituency among the lower-caste voters. At stake are an estimated 50,000 government jobs that until now were open to upper-caste students. The competitive university system produces far more graduates than the job market can absorb, and young upper-caste Indians are extremely eager to find jobs that will pay well enough to meet their middle- class expectations. Now they face a situation where no matter how well they do in school, it will be considerably harder...
...that, Democrats adopted a new tactic: outleak the White House. A Democratic study applauding the progressivity of the Democratic tax proposal (and pointing out the regressive quality of the White House proposal) found its way into mass circulation. "We're letting them frame the issues," said one White House official. "We're getting massacred...
...tactic is to play for time: Armitage argued for a 10-year phase-down and continued U.S. access to Clark air base and Subic Bay naval base. In reply, Manila's negotiators called for the return of Clark by late next year, after which the Aquino government says it hopes to turn the facility into a civilian airport...
...same time, one tactic that has worked all too well in past showdowns is failing so far. Saddam Hussein has taken hostages by the thousands. But the U.S. and other Western governments -- paralyzed in the past by fear of harm to hostages, and willing to strike bad deals to get them freed -- this time have insisted that they will not be diverted from their fundamental policies. Up to now they have been as good as their word, and there has been surprisingly little outcry about rescuing the hostages first...