Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, Haggerty made sure not to push his runners too hard early in the season, a tactic which may have cost the squad in its dual meets against Army and Northeastern...
...tactic worked. Illinois quickly promised $10.2 million in federal and state grants, and union workers offered $4 million more in concessions. Alabama Governor George Wallace told his state development office to "do whatever is necessary" to keep Hyster in the state. Officials in Kentucky huddled with the company to work out a contract...
...they can learn from the competition, including their archrivals in Japan. Japanese inventory-control techniques are being introduced in U.S. plants, as are pared-down corporate staffs and worker-management cooperation programs. Now General Motors Corp. is pushing that process one giant step further, taking to heart the old tactic of joining 'em when you can't beat 'em. Reports out of Tokyo and Detroit last week indicated that GM, America's largest car manufacturer (sales in 1982's first nine months: $46.1 billion), may soon enter into a joint venture with Toyota Motor...
...netted dozens of guerrillas as well. The police drew up psychological profiles of Red Brigades members that explored their revolutionary ardor and probable reaction to the prospect of life imprisonment, and then zeroed in on those who seemed likely to turn informant in exchange for a lighter sentence. The tactic worked, and the confessions snowballed. The mood of the country also changed, for the Moro and Dozier incidents, combined with the spree of violence, cost the terrorists what little sympathy they enjoyed among Italians. Perhaps as a result, terrorist attacks in Italy have decreased' from a high...
Perhaps young witnesses' greatest handicap is their limited vocabularies. In sexual abuse cases, lawyers employ a new kind of visual aid: dolls with sex organs. Using a pair of dolls, a witness can play-act what happened. Jurors in Red Wing, Minn., found this tactic thoroughly convincing in the prosecution a year ago of James Cermak, 27, for sexually abusing ten children. After four of them used dolls to show what Cermak had done to them, he was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison...