Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true-blue loyalist, has given the INF deal unqualified support. In the Senate, which must approve the agreement by a two- thirds vote if it is to take effect, a hard core of perhaps a dozen conservative Republicans is mobilizing to block ratification, and many more are dubious. One tactic they are likely to follow is proposing amendments, such as one making ratification contingent on proof that the Soviets are scrupulously observing previous treaties...
Gephardt has personally adopted a more sensible tactic. He has begun using a ringing new stump speech with a no-fudging defense of his tough trade policies, and he has been attacking Simon and Dukakis directly on economic issues. Not only is it a more substantive way to revitalize his campaign, but it might prove more effective than his organization's botched poll scam...
...cells to fight off ever present bacteria. Doctors battled soaring fevers, infection and internal bleeding with sophisticated antibiotics and clotting agents. At Chernobyl, Gale and Selidovkin had tried to save severely affected technicians and fire fighters with bone-marrow transplants. The medical team in Rio decided against that surgical tactic, in part because the patients' bone marrow had not been irreversibly destroyed and because, from the nature of their exposure, some of the sickest patients had become radioactive...
...telephone excise tax, a shrinking of tax benefits for corporate takeovers, and limits on the amounts of home loans that are eligible for interest deductions ($1 million on mortgages and $100,000 for home-equity loans). "Treacherous!" exclaimed Texas Republican Richard Armey. "This is a bait-and-switch tactic. They baited the President into a summit and then switched on him." The Democrats in fact are likely to use this package of tax increases as a lever to pry concessions out of the White House at the domestic summit. Though Reagan has withdrawn his frequent pledges to veto anything resembling...
...about to let that comment pass unchallenged. "I didn't know small, grass- roots investors pulled out," said Sawyer. "I thought it was the investment banks and large firms that panicked." Du Pont smiled uncertainly at the young man and wisely changed the subject. It was a tactic that few candidates were able to emulate during a cataclysmic week that took the bloom off the economic boom...