Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sargent's most important tactic has been to label Dukakis young, inexperienced and rash. Speaking as the "voice of experience," Sargent has been able to poke holes in Dukakis proposals, causing the Democrat to waffle on the issues...
...matter of conjecture. If they feel that they are not sufficiently benefiting from the trade bill, they might back down. Last week Leonid Brezhnev made a speech in which he called Jackson's demands "utterly irrelevant and unacceptable." But the tirade was viewed in Washington as the usual Soviet tactic of publicly denying what they have privately conceded...
...time the compromise was reached, the pressures for reform had grown so great that many past foes of public financing revealed that they would vote for the measure. Alabama's Democratic Senator James Allen, who had filibustered against the original Senate bill, indicated he would not repeat that tactic. Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays, who had bottled up the reform in committee for months, is now expected to support the compromise...
...trial strategy emerges, Jaworski and his top assistant handling the case, James Neal, have overwhelming evidence that there was a conspiracy to obstruct justice in an attempt to conceal the origins of the Watergate wiretap-burglary. The Nixon tapes provide devastating evidence. The chief defense tactic apparently will thus be to challenge the validity of those tapes and try to force the prosecution and Judge John J. Sirica into technical errors that could lead to a successful appeal of any conviction...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was set to re-emphasize the point this week to the General Assembly. He will also suggest some of the political implications of a continuing energy crisis. Here U.S. leverage is a little stronger. One immediate tactic might be a slackening of American pressure on Israel to negotiate the return of occupied Arab territories. But there is an obviously remote long-range threat that some Arab nations have always taken seriously: U.S. occupation of their oilfields...