Word: tactically
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According to the Miami Herald, Florida attempted to revive its felon purge lists in 2004, again rife with inaccuracy, again disproportionately disenfranchising black voters. By the far the worst tactic was revealed by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who exposed that the state of Florida was “investigating” get-out-the-vote drives among blacks in Orlando by sending armed police officers into the homes of mostly elderly, African-American citizens who had filed absentee ballots. For someone to authorize the intimidation and terrorization of poor elderly black women who came...
...also gave NBC's prized young adults more of what they loved, persuading the Friends cast to come back for one more year and adding eight extra minutes to some episodes in a tactic he dubbed supersizing. But many of the debuts on his watch, from Emeril to Coupling, were duds, though Las Vegas has been a modest success. Last year's hiring of savvy programmer Kevin Reilly from FX (Nip/Tuck, The Shield) to run NBC Entertainment day to day could help make up for that weakness...
...time giving us a sense of his female characters—God forbid we lose some of the shots of scenery and endless montages of vineyards to make room for character development. So little time is devoted to his female characters that Payne is forced to use the cheap tactic of writing Maya a soliloquy about “the life of wines” in order to give her supposed spiritual depth...
...ROUNDS. Experts who teach negotiation say you should be prepared to go four rounds (four back-and-forths) when negotiating for anything. Steel yourself with the knowledge that collaborative negotiating--asking, "Can we find a way that this can work for both of us?"--can be a very effective tactic. It's also one that women tend to be better at than...
Such synchronized attacks are a common al-Qaeda tactic, Israeli intelligence sources point out. And five days before the attacks, al-Jazeera aired a new tape of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Egyptian native Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling for Muslims to support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington...