Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using Running Mate Spiro Agnew to do most of the tough talking on the gut issue, Nixon has managed to strike an aloof stance. This tactic may well win the Republican ticket a good number of votes, but it could also inflict incalculable moral damage upon...
Western experts have assembled four theories to explain why Russia chose the violent tactic now. One possibility is that the Soviets never considered seriously any other solution to the Czechoslovak problem. The sweet reasonableness at Cierna was all a feint. They could also have come to Cierna in the hope of finding-and aiding-a rebellious rump group in Dubcek's party leadership, and failed. Or they might have decided, after watching post-Cierna Czechoslovakia, that Dubcek simply could not or did not want to deliver on their demands of holding down his reforms. Finally, the invasion could have...
...thought had long since been settled by the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act. Hoping to bolster its stand against entirely abolishing fixed rates, the exchange this month offered instead to cut them by an average 19.5% on big deals (1,000 shares or more). That was primarily a defensive tactic, partly impelled by SEC proposals for slightly sharper fee reductions, starting with deals involving 400 shares of stock. Moreover, despite the exchange's supposedly inflexible minimum fees, the SEC hearings have shown that most brokers give up the bulk of their commissions on big trades through fee-splitting arrangements...
...tons annually, they have had to slash their prices to maintain their markets. From $700 a ton in the early 1950s, sisal has sunk to its present $168 level, which makes it hardly worth harvesting at all. And there is no hope of reversing the trend. The time-honored tactic of withholding the product from the market to drive up its price would only backfire, sending an even larger share of potential sales to synthetic fibers...
When the talks, which were supposed to last only one day, dragged into two and then three days, the Czechoslovaks became apprehensive. Brezhnev mysteriously took ill and returned to his train compartment on the third day. Some observers feared that the sudden departure was only a diplomatic tactic, and that Brezhnev was actually threatening to walk out and break up the talks. A banquet for the two delegations was canceled. But the talks went into a fourth and final...