Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempting to monopolize markets in sealing and masking tapes, magnetic tape and aluminum lithograph plates. Among the charges: > That in exchange for licenses to produce 3M-patented products, 3M demanded of competitors the right to fix prices and production and dictate markets. > That to supplement the patent-licensing tactic, 3M banded together with existing competitors to amass new patents in order to choke off new competition. >That 3M was in the habit of bringing, or threatening to bring, patent-infringement suits against competitors who delayed in knuckling under to demands. >That 3M struck a bargain with New Jersey...
...kidnaped into service or forced to join for fear of reprisals against their families. Viet Cong "taxes" are extorted from the population, with the heaviest share falling on landlords and plantation owners, who often pay tribute to save their lands from devastation. Assassination is a favored Viet Cong tactic, directed mostly against government officials, schoolteachers, village chiefs and their wives and children. Businessmen and the rich are seized and held for ransom...
CORE charges that Negroes seeking advancement above the position of porter have been told no openings exist, only to see white applicants hired soon after. Another tactic used by Trailways, CORE says, is to tell Negroes that no tests for higher jobs are available, and then not bother to secure any more...
...this studiously naive charming cub cheetah knock the spots off a pack of ravenous yes-men. After each victory Morse turns to the audience with a collaborative expression on his face that somehow touches a sympathetic nerve in every expense accountable soul in the house, who recognizes both the tactic and the impulse...
This trick of his gives a clue to the best tactic for reading him-a bit at a time. The Complete Firbank cannot be read through any more than can an anthology of aphorisms...