Word: tactically
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...downside: Battling the press is a short-term tactic, not a long-term strategy. You blast away for weeks, the smoke settles...and the press is still there. After Clinton's strong showing Tuesday, the limelight is likely to swing back her way. She won't look as much like an abused underdog, and her coverage will feel less elegiac. Nothing dims the glow of sympathy like success...
...time, this rhetorical tactic helped the Popular Party weaken support for Zapatero's government, says José Ramón Montero, political scientist at Madrid's Autonomous University. "But the Socialists have become much more effective in communicating. The Popular Party is still continuing its strategy of crispación - antagonism - but for most Spaniards, that phase has passed...
...opponents today, one through six, and as a coach that’s all you can ask for.” To counter the loss of the captains and preserve the players’ energy, the coaches shuffled the doubles partners for both matches—a tactic resulting in five wins out of a possible six. In the perfect response to last weekend’s defeats to No. 47 Kentucky and No. 1 Virginia, a series of stellar performances across the board ensured the Crimson (4-2) regained momentum.HARVARD 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 1 From a Crimson perspective, having...
While the Mexican crime families do not have a history of using bombs, explosive devices used to be a favored tactic of their associates in Colombia. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Medellin cartel responded to a government crackdown with bombs on street corners, cars and even one passenger jet, killing hundreds. Colombian gangsters have long been selling cocaine to the Mexican cartels, who smuggle it into the United States. "The cartels could be turning to this Colombian tactic of using terror to pressure the government to back off," said Mexican drug expert Jorge Chabat. "They may be trying...
...military in Iraq, for placing additional troops in strategic “hot-spots” as part of the military “surge” last year. “I don’t think that the surge was a strategy, but a tactic,” said Zinni, a former commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. “All along, I felt that we needed more troops, and the surge has definitely had a positive effect.” He added that combined with the Shiite cease-fire and the Sunni Awakening Movement...