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...This tactic is usually reserved for post-season championship competition. The physiological and psychological stimulation provided by competing with hairless arms and legs invariably leads to faster than normal times...
...arguments hissed after each other like a confused dog biting after its tail. Broke down and full of nonsense and waiting for the sunrise so he could sleep, he tried a different tactic: "Do you know about punji sticks...
...obvious U.S. tactic might be to embargo food exports to Iran, which amounted to nearly $500 million in the fiscal year ended last September. The American Farm Bureau Federation would support President Carter if he should cut off grain shipments, as he could do under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Cries of "Food for crude!" are starting to be heard. The White House, however, has no present intention of halting food supplies. If the U.S. later plugs up this cornucopia, Iran will be less vulnerable than it once was. As a Persian grain trader says, "We are earning...
Schmidt's government has expressed sympathy for the gypsies' cause; one official has urged it to settle the compensation issue "promptly and generously." If that does not happen soon, some gypsies are prepared to take further steps to underscore their grievances. One tactic under consideration: inviting arrest by tearing down signs barring gypsies from campsites in the hope that it might lead to a court ruling affirming the full equality of a people still searching for a place to call home...
...School Committee member Alice Wolf, who piled up city-wide support and a record number of votes in her school board bid. If a strong attachment, personal perhaps, to one candidate can be combined with a weaker intellectual support for other progressives, the CCA may have found a new tactic...