Word: tactically
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Before his arrest, Morley, one of the Harvard janitors who has been part of the union’s negotiating team, said that the civil disobedience might anger the University but that it was a necessary tactic for the union...
...embrace of morbidity. The strikers appear to have mastered the science of dying, taking liquid and vitamins at a rate that permits them to waste away at an incredibly slow rate. As death approaches, supportive "carers" comfort them and encourage their families to accept the legitimacy of the protest tactic...
...tactic worked well in December, when Moore returned from a demotion off the specialty-teams units with a string of strong performances...
...with kidnappers) would suggest they are new to the kidnapping and terrorism business. Terry Anderson, an American reporter who was held hostage by Islamic radicals for seven years in Lebanon, said last week that upon his release in 1991, his captors acknowledged that kidnapping had not been a "useful tactic." Though it had attracted press coverage, Anderson noted, the reports focused on the hostages, not the kidnappers' demands...
...Rollerball, as he says, “[embraces] the violence [that] I used in the original to comment on the activities of multinational corporations.” The previews of this new rendition make the violence the focus, using it as a means to attract moviegoers, the very same tactic used by the “bad guys” in the movie. Perhaps McTiernan intends it this way to make some commentary about contemporary moviegoers as well as large corporations, to point out our own mindless magnetic attraction to action films while we ignore the important issues...