Word: tactically
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...House rejected four major weapons systems, knowing that the Senate was certain to insist on restoring them. This was done so that in the resulting "compromise" the House conferees could agree to revive the systems only after receiving assurances that a lid would be placed on their costs. This tactic resulted in continued funding, for example, for the AMRAAM, a radar-guided Air Force and Navy missile that has technical problems, is more than two years behind schedule and is costing about twice the original estimates (now about $450,000 a missile); and for the P-3C Orion, a patrol...
Direct Action, which shares the R.A.F.'s far-left tactic of attacking military and industrial targets, apparently drew its members from two older terrorist organizations and committed at least 18 assaults in France during 1979 and 1980. Direct Action first claimed to be aligned with the R.A.F. last January after gunning down the French Defense Ministry's chief of arms sales, General René Audran...
...unions, led by the Air Line Pilots Association, were vehemently opposed to a Lorenzo takeover. They feared that he would once again resort to a tactic he had used after Texas Air won a battle for control of Continental Airlines. In 1983 Lorenzo took Continental into bankruptcy proceedings, which enabled the company to void union contracts and slash employee salaries. That maneuver earned Lorenzo a reputation as a union buster...
...feeling somewhat upstaged by the well-oiled conservative machinery, Democratic Senators plan to ask tougher questions of the Reagan nominees, and have hired their own judicial-selection specialist. Some liberal lobbyists are campaigning to head off targeted candidates before the President formally chooses them. One measure of that tactic's success may be the fate of Law Professor Lino Graglia of the University of Texas, who has publicly opposed busing. He is expected to be nominated soon, despite a strong effort to persuade the A.B.A. to find him unacceptable...
...Summers had seen this, even on a smaller scale, he might think differently about his support for ROTC and the CIA and his antipathy towards student protests (which are after all, a globally used tactic). He might just listen more, in general. And we all might think twice about issues surrounding our patriotism—or lack thereof...