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...President caught in a political blunder can always resort to a familiar gambit to diffuse criticism: mixing candor and contrition. That was the tactic adopted by Ronald Reagan last week as he tried to stem the anger caused by the decision to allow tax exemptions for private schools practicing racial discrimination...
...49ers increased their lead to 20-0 with two more field goals in the last 15 seconds of the half. After Wersching had kicked the first from 22 yards, he squibbed the kickoff, a tactic which makes the skidding ball difficult to return...
Mugabe will enforce his new hard line by extending emergency regulations to allow the government to confiscate without a trial the property or assets of suspected dissidents. The tactic was immediately criticized by white lawyers. Said one Salisbury attorney: "There is no real right of appeal. The regulations can be used to punish anyone the government doesn't like." Added a white government official who is planning to leave the country: "The government keeps accusing whites of being responsible for acts of sabotage, but has so far produced not a scrap of public evidence. They'll probably resort...
...inconsequential. Estimates vary wildly, but a first-class debutante ball starts at close to $50,000 and can run into hundreds of thousands. Some fathers take it better than others. Tom England, whose daughter Kyle, 22, made her debut a week before Mimi, has a secret survival tactic: "Drink...
...threatening, they are sometimes tranquilized, caged and flown to isolated regions several hundred miles away. But after a week or so, some of the deported bears inevitably show up in Churchill again, having trekked back at speeds up to 30 miles a day. Next year Churchill plans a different tactic: obstreperous bears will simply be locked up for a few weeks in sturdy concrete-and-steel cages inside an abandoned Quonset hut. During their brief captivity, they will need no care other than some watering. Finally, when Hudson Bay starts freezing and the bears begin to think passionately about chasing...