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...which it hires. To do so would compromise the University’s commitment to the creation and dissemination of knowledge.”Freeman says he wonders whether SLAM may be trying to bid up workers’ wages, using the $20-per-hour demand as a negotiating tactic.“They may be overshooting,” he says. “But it’s also getting them attention.” —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
Schonberger: My game plan revolves around the ancient tactic of “striking while the iron’s hot.” With this in mind, I plan to grow a beard (impossible) and find a girlfriend (unlikely). I realize a great tan can only carry me so far into the year, so I have purchased a Gamecube as a fallback...
Nine minutes later, Altchek used a strikingly different tactic when he ran down a pass from Nicholas Tornaritis. Rather than trying to pound the ball in, he surprised everyone—from the fans down to Frankel—by easily lobbing it into the air. Frankel did not even react as the ball arced perfectly over his head for a two-goal lead...
...party has come to seem craven, weak and untrustworthy in the process. The only exception to this pathetic tradition was Bill Clinton's criticism of Sister Souljah's racist rap lyrics during the 1992 presidential campaign, a carefully planned gesture that was compromised by its transparency as a political tactic...
...smaller, cheaper TVs and in laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems and handheld game players like Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS. That tactic has enabled Sharp to withstand the margin pressure that's ravaging its rivals. Sharp's small-panel market, says Lehman Bros. analyst Yuki Sugi, is particularly lucrative, since its clients tend to place long-term orders for highly specialized, high-margin goods. Similarly, Sharp has profited richly from being...