Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration lobbyists quickly SUPported Allen's delaying tactic. "They were all over the place," said Kenneth Davis, an aide to Senator Scott. "Their first interest was in getting the debt bill...
...midweek, the Governors of Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania had ordered state police and National Guard units to drag stopped trucks off the road and arrest any drivers who tried to interfere. That tactic broke the traffic jams, but the truckers are determined to continue their protests until the Nixon Administration gets fuel prices reduced, raises speed limits or both. Some are trying to organize a nationwide strike for Thursday and Friday this week...
...ancient dictum that has survived is the strategy of using "barbarians to control barbarians," especially since the growth of Sino-Soviet tensions. China now seems to be ready to use this tactic more agressively than it ever did during the Empire...
...economizing on energy is old news. "The English advise one to gravitate toward rooms full of warm bodies and drink lots of warming spirits, two energy-conserving principles that rind their ultimate expression in a communal effort called a licensed public house." Says Kramer: "I can especially recommend this tactic...
Nixon's assault began with just that tactic in 1972 when he vetoed a two-year, $155 million appropriation to CPB. Charging CPB had become "the center of power and the focal point of control for the entire public broadcasting system," Nixon proposed instead local grants totalling $45 million over one year. Executives along the public network knew that the combination of meager, shortterm funding and wide dispersion of funds was the kiss of death for quality national programming...