Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until a few years ago, Alice's habit of accepting rides from strangers would have been the rapists' strongest defense. Since rape trials often hinge on the victim's word against the defendant's, a standard defense tactic has long been to make the woman appear to have been seeking sex. Courts allowed this, generally following the admonitory dictum on rape laid down in the 17th century by the English jurist Sir Matthew Hale: "An accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never...
When prices move high enough, the temptation grows for even oil companies to start speculating, sometimes by selling portions of their own oil through profiteering middlemen. Last week the Saudi oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, complained of just that tactic, and the sentiment was echoed in Caracas by Venezuelan officials. OPEC might be wise to stay silent because much of the oil that is churning through the spot market is coming not from the companies but directly from the producing states...
...face powerful people after he arrived in San Francisco in 1947 with $60 in his pocket. Said he: "I'd look at them and wonder how they'd survive in Shanghai if you took away their fancy offices and chauffeurs and the trappings of power." The tactic never failed, and Blumenthal never lacked self-confidence...
...Administration's natural gas bill. He finally mustered more than the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, which should have ended the debate. But opponents craftily offered countless amendments and delaying motions, requiring 116 time-consuming roll calls before the bill finally was put to a vote. The tactic, found permissible under the rules, has been used by both liberals and conservatives to frustrate efforts to end a filibuster...
...budget-balancing should be the only issue on its agenda. Congressmen, too, though opposed to the whole idea of a convention, would obviously prefer one with narrow authority. In fact, the dire warnings against a convention run wild come only from opponents who are using them as a scare tactic; convention supporters seem perfectly willing to limit themselves...