Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's hold-fast position may be a sound negotiating tactic, but it gives the Soviets an edge in the war of words. The rhetoric level will increase this week as both Shevardnadze and Shultz give major speeches to the U.N. General Assembly at the opening of its 40th session. The Soviets continue to build up the summit as a "window of opportunity" for a major breakthrough in arms control that may not arise again "for a very, very long time." The U.S. just as resolutely tries to play down such talk as "wishful thinking." At his press conference, Reagan...
From now on, Bok wrote, Harvard's investment policy will be "consistent with our belief that American companies should not be engaged in supplying goods of strategic significance in the administration of apartheid." This newest tactic shifts the battle front from the factory floor to Pretoria's corridors of power, and it significantly politicizes Harvard's position...
...that does not happen, all CBS has to do is contrive to let a Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. broadcast run overtime, thus pushing 60 Minutes back by ten or 15 minutes, and 60 Minutes loyalists will miss the first half of an Amazing story. That is precisely the tactic CBS used to shoot down ABC's Mork & Mindy when that hit show challenged the CBS Sunday lineup...
...Propaganda within the U.S.S.R. is just as shrill and paranoid as ever. Reagan is sometimes & likened to Hitler by news organs. One wall poster currently displayed in Moscow shows a grim image of a U.S. monster threatening to rain down bombs from outer space. Overseas, disinformation remains a favorite tactic; the Kremlin rarely overlooks an opportunity to plant a false rumor. While grieving last week over the death of Samantha Smith, the American girl who visited the U.S.S.R. on a peace mission at the invitation of Yuri Andropov in 1983, the Soviet media hinted that her plane crashed...
...tactic has sparked concern that all aspects of student loans, from distribution to collection, could eventually become centralized in the IRS, Lyndon E. Tefft, Harvard's director of the office for financial systems, said yesterday...