Word: tactically
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...Americans in favor of legalized abortion, Alito's opponents thought they had finally found their cudgel. But the Senate Democrats, at least, did not seem prepared yet to use it bluntly: for Alito's nomination they have settled on a strategy that doesn't take abortion head on. "The tactic is going to be to frame it as a debate over broader rights, including privacy, civil rights and women's rights," says Jim Manley, the spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. This will avoid, Manley says, "the divisive debate over the word itself...
After returning�from a trip to South America that was widely characterized as a failure, President George W. Bush tried a new tactic. For his weeklong swing through Asia, he adopted a role that paid dividends for his predecessor--the President as tourist. Bush had always resisted sightseeing, spending just seven minutes touring the Kremlin, for instance. But last week his itinerary bristled with excursions outside official halls. The stops had a theme: he made a series of leisurely visits to religious sites, including a gold-leafed Buddhist temple in Japan and an ancient Korean pagoda. White House officials tell...
...nowhere has the tactic been more realized than in the gay rights movement, whose campus proponents have a nasty habit of blending moderation (civil unions) with madness (see below...
...bombs were likely to have been too long in the planning to be an attempt to disrupt Indo-Pak relief cooperation in the wake of the Kashmir earthquake, they will inevitably dampen the spirit of reconciliation the disaster was beginning to engender. "This is part of LET's overall tactic," said the officer. "To hit everyone everywhere...
...than thou” attitude. Felicia Jacques, a consultant who has been negotiating with Harvard for the Charlesview Board, wrote in an e-mail that the Board’s primary concern was to ensure that living conditions for residents improved. “This is not a negotiating tactic,” she wrote. “The buildings are 40 years old and need attention to sustain their viability as an affordable housing resource. A new construction option from a land swap is one way to resolve this, if this is not possible, we must look to fortifying...