Word: tactically
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...airport terrorism was especially unsettling to Italy and Austria, which have developed relatively good relations with the P.L.O. in recent years. In addition, the tactic of shooting up an airport area that anyone can enter without going through personal and baggage screening troubled officials who supervise airport security. "We can move passenger check-ins further away from airports," said Vienna's Lord Mayor Helmut Zilk. "But we can't keep them secret...
Both sides in the Great Contra Debate are using as a scare tactic the possibility that the U.S. might have to intervene directly in Nicaragua. Opponents of the Administration have warned for years that the contras are the forerunners of American troops. Now, just in the past few weeks, Reagan, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan have turned the argument around, invoking the specter of G.I.s in the jungle as something that no one wants to see but that might be required down the road if the Congress defies the President now. Sooner...
...more than a dozen regulatory agencies ranging from the Federal Communications Commission to the Federal Reserve Board. "Independent agencies would bite the dust," warns Stanford University Law Professor Gerald Gunther. When Administration Lawyer Fried tried to assure the court last week that such arguments were simply a scare tactic, he got a quick reply from Justice O'Connor. "Mr. Fried," she said, "I'll confess you scared...
...much so, that the idea of "not wanting to offend the Chinese" (whatever that means) is routinely heard in private among business leaders and those with privileged access to Beijing's facilitators. Of course, peddling the notion of a China whose feelings are fragile is a brilliant negotiating tactic. Why fault the Chinese for trying it on? But such spinelessness debases Australia, its traditions and its pride in speaking truth to big powers. Australia loses face when its leaders fail to robustly denounce human-rights abuses or to show a semblance of support for an individual such as Chen...
...system could get special rewards. As a new recruit in London during World War II, he frequently took advantage of a policy that gave soldiers an extra day off if, instead of boozing it up at the pubs, they enjoyed a night of culture at the theater. Greenberg's tactic: buy a ticket, grab a playbill, walk in the front door--and right out the side door...