Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is to do it authentically." Veritas, always. He also said, "Revolutionaries have two options--one is to be militant and the other is to think." An undergraduate observer, Frank Rich '72, watched the Battle of Harvard Square and cared not to debate its propriety or effectiveness as a tactic for ending the war--"to talk for or against violence as a means to get peace or killing as a means to stop killing or the feasibility of starting a revolution at this time seems a waste of effort now." He was, however, left with one overriding vision...
...This tactic, too, has backfired. Egypt ended its subsidies of key staples in 1977 under IMF orders. Within days riots erupted. Desperate people took to the streets and forced the government to turn back the moves. In Peru, an IMF-ordered 20-per-cent hike in gasoline costs on January 3, 1979, led to a general strike and an attendant repressive response. Hundreds were arrested for leading the strike; seven magazines were closed down; police were ordered to shoot troublemakers on sight; the Constitution was suspended...
Calling the move a "scare tactic," James P. Cassidy, the local's president, said yesterday the city has never docked pay before during negotiations, adding he knows of two committee members affected. "I expect the hearing to come out in our favor," he added...
From the moment economists first began warning six months ago that the Administration's inflation-fighting tactic of pushing up interest rates would bring on a recession, Jimmy Carter has been countering with calm assurances that any downturn would be "mild and brief." All winter long it seemed as if he might be right. Unemployment, a major indication of economic health, hovered steadily at an unsatisfactory but acceptable 6% of the labor force...
...along, Carter's critics charged that his refusal to campaign was merely a political tactic, not a necessity of national security. This week, the president gave credence to their harshest complaints. In deciding to give up the protection of the Rose Garden for the glaring publicity of the last few primaries, Carter claims, curiously, that after the fiasco of his failed rescue attempt this week, the crisis is "more manageable...