Word: tactical
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...according to labor experts, each time the University challenges HUCTW, their position seems more like an anti-union tactic than an appeal to ensure the sanctity of a union election...
...most successful tactic of the pro-repeal campaign has been to argue that eliminating the wage would contribute to lower construction costs and help create lower municipal tax rates. But according to the pro-wage Committee for Quality of Life, the average cost of labor on a construction bid is only 15 to 20 percent. If the prevailing wage were repealed, they claim, and wages were cut by as much as 20 percent, the overall decrease in the price of the project to a community would be as little as 2 to 3 percent...
This shrewd collaboration may be calculated to keep the party from losing the initiative and divert nationalist sentiment into controllable channels. But the tactic is not without risk. Concerned that 90% of the Popular Front members are Estonian, Russians who live in the Baltic republic have formed their own "international" movement. Estonian leader Valjas has urged Popular Front members to "avoid aggravating nationalist disputes...
...Hightower, depicting a gathering of Bushmen around the yacht-club bar, "sipping a delightfully fruity and frisky white wine, saying 'Play it again, George!' " This was not random abuse but an effort to energize voters who expect Democrats to look out for the little guy -- a venerable Democratic tactic, handed down from Franklin D. Roosevelt (himself an aristocrat...
...Texans, and the Bentsen campaign has yet to come up with an effective rebuttal. When a local reporter asks Bentsen whether Texans wouldn't be better off with one of their own in the Senate and in the White House, he gruffly replies, "That's a diversionary tactic...