Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roll call came on the question of whether to reconsider an earlier vote, one that would have been 47 to 47 but tipped 48 to 46 for confirmation only because the rules forced Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd to vote yes if, as a tactic, he had wanted to move to reconsider. The tie was enough to give the Administration a victory. Nonetheless, Vice President George Bush cast a tie-breaking 50th vote, scoring a point with the right-wing forces that had made a cause celebre of the fight against Manion's appointment to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court...
...first tactic, of course, was to open up the new film and populate it. Aside from the fact that combat-trained women are fully integrated into the group, the crew members are 20th century grunts unregenerately projected into the far future. Led by the usual by-the-books lieutenant who is incompetent and by the usual kick-ass sergeant who is supercompetent, their numbers naturally include Hudson (Bill Paxton), a coward, and Hicks (Michael Biehn), a quiet, steadfast type, who turns out to be the bravest...
Burr saw rapid growth as a survival tactic in an air-transportation market dominated by bigger rivals. No other U.S. airline, though, has ever expanded as quickly as People. Burr was confident in the price advantage that People's low-wage, nonunionized employees produced over other carriers: 5.28 cents to fly a passenger one mile last year, vs. the industry average of 8.6 cents. He was overly blithe as he pushed his company into Atlanta and Dallas/Fort Worth, the territory of two major rivals, Delta and American. People gained size but it failed to gain strength...
...weeks later, Harvard tried the same tactic to keep homeless men from sleeping on top of heating vents located just outside of Leverett House--but the response from students, city residents, and nationwide audiences was far different...
...distressed to read Michael Nolan's example of one-sided "journalism," "The CRR: Whose Rights, Whose Responsibilities?", in the April 21 issue of The Crimson. By means of the deceptive tactic of selective quotation, Nolan deleted all evidence of the CRR. As a member of the Undergraduate Council committee that studied the CRR, I want to supply the Harvard-Radcliffe community with several facts about the CRR that Nolan left out of his article...