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...strategy failed to fend off British consumer-products giant Grand Metropolitan. The Dough Boys also tried a "poison pill" strategy that would have awarded current stockholders a larger share of the company, making it far more expensive to purchase. But a Delaware chancery court ruled against Pillsbury's tactic, and it was gobbled up last week for $5.C5 billion...
...Arafat? In the State Department's view, the stubborn, strong-willed Shultz had played hardball diplomacy with Arafat until he got what he wanted. Even Shultz's unpopular decision to deny Arafat a visa to speak at the U.N. in New York City was portrayed as a deliberate tactic to push the P.L.O. chairman into uttering the magic words that had never before passed his lips: that the P.L.O. renounced terrorism and "recognized Israel's right to exist within secure borders." Insisted Shultz: "I didn't change my mind . . . Now we have acceptance of our conditions...
Local 26 won these demands at a time when less progressive and less militant unions are being forced to seek concessions, and they didn't win because the negotiating team for the hotels was in a conciliatory mood. Local 26 won using the hottest and most creative tactic the left has to force change in this country--the corporate campaign strategy...
...Brien's tactic took his team right out of any offensive flow, relying mostly on the outside shooting of guards Stanley House and Mark Peabody--although House and Peabody combined for 36 points in the game, they only shot a combined 10 of 26 from the field--and offensive rebounding by center Michael Swell, who finished with a game-high eight rebounds...
...tuned in to the exchange. Turner's critics argued that he had fallen on the nationalist strategy not so much out of principle but out of desperation: down in the polls, they said, he faced ouster as his party's leader if the Liberal campaign failed. But the tactic worked: within four days, the Liberals enjoyed, according to one poll, a 4- point lead...