Word: tactical
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...psychological advantage enjoyed by an underdog team seeking to upset an arch rival is a phenomenon common to almost any sport. But this shaving bit is something else. Only swimmers use this tactic. Every swimmer worth anything does it religiously before the big meet of the season. And no one really understands why it works, even the coaches and the athletes themselves. All everyone knows is that it does work, sometimes incredibly well...
...book "The Science of Swimming" has established him among the world's experts on swimming (the guy swam the English Channel this past summer at the age of 58 if you doubt that he knows what he's talking about), emphasizes the commitment shaving represents when speaking of the tactic's remarkable effectiveness...
Bush admits his new buoyancy is partly a deliberate tactic. "I used to think I should keep quiet and others would blow my horn," he explains with a wry grin. "But they didn't. So I will." Now Bush rarely misses a chance to tick off highlights of his career. One of the war's youngest pilots, winning his Navy wings at 18. Shot down over the Pacific and four hours adrift at sea before being rescued by a submarine crew. Three air medals and the DFC. Phi Beta Kappa at Yale. Creator of an independent off shore...
...turgid they were unbelievable," outlined methods for capturing Labor at the grass roots. The program of the group, dubbed "Red Moles" by London's Daily Mirror, also includes fomenting an economic and political crisis in Britain that would result in the apocalyptic collapse of capitalism. One key tactic advocated is "entryism," a neologism coined by Leon Trotsky in 1934 to describe the infiltration of legal political organizations for subversive purposes. Some defectors from Militant accuse it of crudely totalitarian goals. Said one: "There would be less freedom than there is under capitalism. There would be more dissidents in prison...
...popular uprising, of course, takes the from of the public's refusal to patronize these arts, a tactic that, given today's tight supply on arts funding from government, foundations and corporations, is virtually certain to eventually succeed. Already progress is visible: architects, for instance, abandoned the traditional steel-and-glass box for more human structures years ago. Some very recent classical composers, in the tradition of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn, have made greater efforts to have their music evoke emotional responses than has been the case for much of this century. A few months ago, several leading rock artists unselfishly...