Word: tactically
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...different type of understanding.” With all that understanding going on, one might think that an enterprising male might enroll in such a course where the odds are stacked in his favor. When asked whether or not taking the course was a good tactic for picking up girls, Gena M. Haugen ’09 laughs, and then says, “I would definitely consider dating a guy who was interested in reading Jane Austen.” But with enrollment numbers like those in WGS 1122, Haugen might have to widen...
...ACTUALLY DONE Indiana attorney general Steve Carter filed a lawsuit against the group last week after receiving complaints that it was "push polling" against Democratic congressional candidate Baron Hill. Automated calls placed by the group claimed to be conducting a poll, then attacked Hill's voting record. The tactic usually goes below the radar. In this case, the Indiana AG claims it violates the state's telemarketing...
...That tactic keeps a soldier alive for another day, but it doesn?t stop agonies of self-recrimination at night, or for many nights to come. Mary Nguyen, an official of the Veterans? Administration in Dallas, quotes a poem: "Yes, the war is over. And over and over and over in my mind." They bring the war home with them, but often they?re not the people they were when they left - once a civilian, now a killing machine. "There?s an old saying," Nguyen adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes...
Amelio is also employing a tactic used by other Asian upstarts, like Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor--value for money. Lenovo is packing its products with goodies and charging less than other PC brands, especially in a new series of computers called Lenovo 3000. Launched in February, the 3000s are an amalgam of Lenovo and IBM design and technology. The desktops are based on a Chinese product that features a one-button fix-it process to restore virus-damaged systems. They also feature ThinkPad-quality keyboards--all at a very reasonable $349. In comparison with other major brands, Lenovo notebooks ranked...
...Cohen's form of ambush comedy involves donning an assured and preposterously unknowing persona - the hip-hopeless Ali G., for example - then embarrassing real people by asking inane questions and making rude observations. A riff on the Michael Moore style of confrontation, it's a tactic I'm usually not crazy about, since anyone can seem a fool when he's not allowed in on the joke. As Moore once made me uneasily sympathetic to (or feel pity for) General Motors chairman Roger Smith, so Ali G. nudged me to the side of the politicians and aged authors who were...