Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranians are still hoping to break through the Iraqi positions and advance quickly to Basra (est. pop. 500,000), an important oil center that lies 280 miles from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. But Iraqi officials suspected that the attacks in the vicinity of Basra might be a diversionary tactic aimed at distracting the Iraqis from a larger and more serious threat to the north. If the Iranians should attack along the central border, where their troops are reported to be concentrated, they would be threatening Baghdad from a distance of only 75 miles...
...Mackinac Island conferees agreed that rather than sell the water, a far better tactic would be to use it for their own industrial development, perhaps even to lure back some of the firms that have fled to dryer pastures. As Wisconsin's Dreyfus said, "The only water that leaves the Great Lakes basin should be in cans, mixed with hops, barley and malt." But while such a political position may play well in Milwaukee, it raises a far more serious question in what could become an increasingly shrill national debate: Should any single state, or group of states...
...firm to kick in at least $1,000 each to the Reagan campaign. Two of the subcontractors told Silverman that they felt the request for funds implied that failure to comply would end their business with Schiavone. While Silverman concluded that no crime was committed in this fund-raising tactic, he sent the information to the Federal Election Commission to see if any civil violations of campaign funding laws were involved...
...survivors, including sentimental favorite and host Spain, and defending champion Argentina, to settle Mundial '82: soccer's global championship. And for more fans around the world than watch almost any other organized activity, professional or amateur, it is soccer-footloose of spirit and often fancy of tactic-that is the true champagne of sport...
...What is your response to that?" Graham: "David, I was not taken in." The evidence seems to be that he was, but what is of interest is the way Graham was questioned-the technique of the unbuttressed accusation disguised as a question. In television interviewing, this dubious tactic is now acceptable shorthand...