Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McLaren may not have an easy time cutting down the conglomerates. Their growth stems largely from the vagaries of antitrust law?and there is still considerable question about whether the Government has the legal power to stop the trend. Diversification by merger has long been an attractive tactic for industrialists who were anxious to reduce profit-sapping fluctuations in the demand for individual goods and services. It is easier and quicker to diversify by buying a going concern than by starting from scratch. But Government antitrust barriers often stand in the way of combinations within a company's own field...
...arrival in their city, then post lookouts at transportation terminals and hotels. When they have their quarry pinned down, they move in-dolled up in wild outfits and weird hairdos, hoping desperately to attract attention and earn an invitation inside. If that fails, they resort to more direct tactic; fering performers dope in exchange their favors or bribing security guards to smuggle them into stars' hotel rooms...
...that calls itself "The Black and Puerto Rican Student Community" angrily spurned what C.C.N.Y. President Buell G. Gallagher called "affirmative answers to all their demands," occupied the administration building, broke into Gallagher's office and sampled his private stock of liquor. Despite the provocations, C.C.N.Y. officials tried the tactic of ignoring the demonstrators, and it worked-for the moment. After four hours, the students left...
Another possible solution is closer supervision of those who are released. This tactic was endorsed last year by the American Bar Association, which called on the courts to set curfews for certain defendants, to require them to report regularly to court officers and to prohibit them from carrying a weapon or other acts that might bring trouble. The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research group seeking to modernize legal procedures, started a trend away from money bail in Manhattan, is now offering job training and counseling to some of those who are released on their own word...
...tactic was quickly imitated by another group, the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL). Claiming that the SDS petition "violated the civil liberties" of the students who wanted to participate in ROTC, the YPSL members proposed a student referendum on whether ROTC courses should have credit. The referendum would not be binding on the Faculty, and its alternatives would not include the SDS demand to expel ROTC. Like SDS, YPSL got a Faculty member to present its proposal at the Faculty meeting; Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government, revealed it would have a place on the Dec. 3 docket...