Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gardners, incensed by Terrace's "weasel talk" and "innuendo," considered suing him. Patterson accused Terrace of "rather muddleheaded methodology." But some of the other researchers are taking a long, hard look at their own work. Premack, now at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks that Terrace's tactic of trying to treat Nim like a human baby was "silly and ill-advised," but he agrees that animals are incapable of spontaneous conversation. The Rumbaughs maintain that their more recent experiments preclude the possibility of trainers giving cues, consciously or sub consciously, to the subjects, but they have their...
...think we'll see a return to the strike tactic," Murray B. Levin, a professor of political science at B.U. and an active member of the school's faculty union, said yesterday...
...cult of brute force been professed so openly." An editorial in the New York Times?'The Washington Post? In fact, the statement appeared last week in Pravda, which went on to denounce America's "unprecedented militarism" and "claims to worldwide supremacy." Adopting the time-proven tactic that the best defense is a strong offense, the Soviet press, radio and television conducted a nonstop rhetorical counterattack against mounting criticism in the U.S., Western Europe and the Muslim world of the U.S.S.R.'s invasion and conquest of Afghanistan...
...inflation has been the Administration's self-inflicted economic wounds: the rise in the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.10 per hour; $132.1 billion worth of deficit spending in the past four budgets; encouraging the Federal Reserve to follow an easy-money policy; and the "cheap dollar" tactic that fostered the buck's 28% fall, against the West German mark since Carter's Inauguration. The economic report conceded that since 1976 the underlying inflation rate, independent of all temporary factors like oil and food price increases, has risen by some 3%, to about...
Carter aides figured a 15% to 20% run-up in oil prices as part of their 1980 forecast. M.I.T. Oil Economist Morris A. Adelman argues that OPEC has adopted a tactic of "permanent brinkmanship," which will keep the oil supply just short of world demand, while continuing to raise prices. The U.S. must fight back by substantially cutting consumption. But Adelman fears that "our national rhetoric is balanced by our reluctance to do anything...