Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early-warning system like the U.S. AWACS aircraft. With only 36 Harrier jets aboard the armada's aircraft carriers, Hermes and Invincible, Task Force Commander John "Sandy" Woodward had to take the chance of using missile-bearing warships as part of his frontline antiaircraft defense. His tactic: to establish a British naval "gun line" around the vulnerable assault ships, supply vessels and troopships that actually carried out the landing...
...missiles, B-l bombers, and soon Stealth bombers and Trident II missiles. We could go on building them in definitely." Soviet officials object to that kind of argument as intimidation. Said Radomir Bogdanov, an arms-control expert at Moscow's USA Institute: "It's the usual American tactic of threatening your bargaining partner...
...drama then switched to Brussels, where the agriculture ministers were to take up the matter of increasing farm prices. Resorting to a time-tested tactic, Britain's Peter Walker began by claiming the right of veto under the Luxembourg compromise on the ground that farm prices directly affect the size of Britain's budget. Belgian Agriculture Minister Paul de Keersmaecker, who was in the chair, ruled that Walker's declaration of national interest was invalid on the ground that farm prices, not Britain's budget contribution, were at issue. De Keersmaecker was supported by France...
...most flagrant use of this tactic, however, same in the 1980 Board of Supervisors race against Dana, a Pacific Telephone executive Dana also campaigned on Burke's death penalty stance and threw in the busing issue as well. It was aclever tactic, but Burke had never been involved with the busing debate, and the Board of Supervisors had never had any jurisdiction over either issue. When Dana played his trump card on the last weekend of the campaign and defeated Burke, she decided to bow out of elective politics for good...
...Valelly notes. "The whole Citibank issue showed to me they had no respect for precedent Kenneth Propp. a third-year law student and, former member for the ACSR, adds that citing precedent is an"unjustifiable tactic" by the Corporation because it serves as a pretext for covering up serious disagreements with the ACSR...