Word: tactically
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Rather than be discouraged, Keefe uses what little knowledge he can gather on Echelon as a jumping off point to analyze and criticize the intelligence community’s growing reliance on signals intelligence—a tactic whose effectiveness is constantly dropping as technology becomes more sophisticated, and the sea of signals in the air gets incomprehensibly dense. Reading like a spy novel itself, revealing information at a guarded pace to maximize the reader’s paranoia, Keefe’s book explains how the National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA’s reliance on signals intelligence...
...long been de rigeur, the timing of DeLay’s actions have set a dangerous precedent. Assistant Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken explains, “The rules were, fight it out once a decade, but then let it lie for ten years. DeLay’s tactic was so shocking because it got rid of this old, informal agreement.” If the leaders of majority parties in other states follow as it appears that they will, the example set by Texas Republicans—attempting to maximize their political strength through perpetual legislative battles over...
...pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like a good thing to re-emerge as the original media whore, but there's no denying Dali's role in making showmanship an art-world career tactic...
...questioning their legitimacy and insisting that elections can't be held as long as U.S. troops remain in the country. They may share some of the political goals and concerns of the insurgency, but they insist that a non-violent call for a boycott is a legitimate democratic protest tactic...
...regime change to regime transformation," says Baik. "Pyongyang wants to see if this translates into policy." A less benign dynamic may be at work as well. Pyongyang has a long history of threatening to walk out of talks in order to extract concessions?and cash?from its opponents. The tactic has worked in the past; both Beijing and Washington have provided "aid" at critical junctures, and Seoul paid Pyongyang at least $500 million to agree to a summit meeting in 2000. "They want people to come back and implore them" to rejoin talks, says a Western diplomat. "That's standard...