Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compensation has not yet been fully put into effect, but it seems doubtful that Harvard is moving in the opposite direction: toward lower wages. Labor markets may be imperfect, but probably not so imperfect that an employer-particularly one faced with a decline in job applicants-can adept a tactic of lower...
Altered Mood. While shrill contentiousness is something of a novelty in the Nixon Administration, it is scarcely a tactic new to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Franklin Roosevelt rounded on "economic royalists" and Harry Truman on the "do-nothing 80th Republican Congress" in deliberate attempts to polarize the U.S. electorate, and both were critical of what was said about them in print. Now, as then, the news media tend to be thin-skinned and quick to rush to their own defense...
...there is to fall in love with is sexual racists." But most of the sexual segregationists have sterner reasons. Their chastity is not so much a Lysistrata tactic, it seems, as a self-disciplinary measure. "Love between a man and a woman is debilitating and counter-revolutionary," argues Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, daughter of David of the Chase Manhattan Bank and a member of Women's Liberation hard-core Cell 16 in Boston. Declares Boston's Roxanne...
...course one could always throw rocks back into the gas. Into and through the gas, at the windows of banks, specialty shops, book stores. Except that that tactic seemed just another admission of the impossibility of real confrontation...
...However, BSFA disagreed with SDS on the tactic of keeping May in his office, and its members eventually released him from SDS custody. Later in the afternoon, BSFA voted to dissolve itself, and suggested that SDS end its sit-in, which the SDS members refused to do at that time...