Word: tactically
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Bold but never naked ambition is the animating force of Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (Ballantine), the audacious book by Nina DiSesa, chairman of the flagship New York City office of the advertising agency McCann Erickson. She lets out a war whoop, intent on "breaking down the barriers of that impenetrable bastion of male arrogance and supremacy: 'the boys club.'" One weapon, she confides, is "the Art of S&M (Seduction and Manipulation)." One of DiSesa's guiding principles, however, is, "Don't confuse seduction with sex (one is a brilliant business tactic...
...delay is widely seen as a stalling tactic by Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime to give its "shock troops," government-allied mobs known as the "war veterans," to fan out across the country, seize land and intimidate voters in the event of an eventual presidential run-off. Tsvangirai told TIME this week that what was happening in Zimbabwe was a "de facto military coup." Government spokesman Bright Matonga has countered - with no evidence to support his claims, however - that the veterans are trying to resist a program of land seizures by white farmers crossing into Zimbabwe from South Africa...
...prepare? I solicit questions from just about everybody I know. I ask civilians. I ask partisans on both sides. I've also found as a tactic that the moderator's eyes have to be very carefully focused. You really have to remain kind of an impassive figure at these debates...
...after wrangling over how ties would be broken, Stephan decided to call for the vote; while all 16 Obama delegates opted to go forward, the 9 Clinton delegates preferring to prolong the debate. It was clear that drawing out the process was a strategic move by the Clintonites, a tactic seen elsewhere around the state that day, as delays caused some delegates to give up and go home. A few delegates were seen leaving the expo center in mid-afternoon, but the 16 Obama backers in Precinct 110 said they would not leave until the results were turned...
...Aguilera: It’s a vigil, it’s silent. In terms of our strategy, we ask ourselves: Is this a tactic we believe in? Is this too non-confrontational for something like the war, which is so inherently confrontational? Should we be responding to war by walking, literally silenced? [This is] something we grappled with as anti-war activists...