Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNESCO projects use a different tactic for "motivating" their students. Instructors play on what they call "the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses syndrome." For instance, Farmer A learns to read so that he can learn how to use the bag of fertilizer the government has provided. The fertilizer doubles the autumn crop. Farmer B sees that his neighbor is getting more fruits for the same amount of labor. Farmer B determines he will learn how to read. The lesson is simple, the UN's experts conclude: give a man some reason to learn, and he will not only learn...
...Conspiracy. There was no "typical" riot last year, observed the commission. Each was a unique and complex drama that, "like most human events, did not unfold in an orderly sequence." Thus it is not surprising that the commission found no single tactic successful in combatting riots. The rioters themselves, however, were typical. The majority were male Negroes between 15 and 24, who were lifelong residents of the ghetto and high school dropouts. They were usually better educated than their non-rioting neighbors, proud of their race, hostile to whites and middle-class Negroes, and distrustful of the U.S. political system...
...main advantage of the tactic is that it combats over-centralization by permitting low-level cadre to adopt broad party policy to local problems Premier Pham Van Dong and President Ho are well aware of the dangers of applying party principles inflexibly. In interviews with visiting European communists last summer, Pham emphasized that the regime was taking measures to guard against creeping bureaucratization. He and Ho have had some near disastrous experiences dictating indiscriminately from the top. Hanoi's rigid land reform program of 1955-56 produced a revolt in Ho's home province in November...
Smith got out of the cooler in time for Barry's major promotion of the evening. Terrier defenseman Hinch planted his elbow in Bob Fredo's face and when Barry was nonplussed he used the tactic on three more Crimson skaters. Everyone in the full house saw a fight was brewing except the referees, and at 16:30 it exploded...
...North Vietnam succeeds in this aggression, either through a negotiated settlement or a military victory, they will try the same tactic again...