Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more legitimate question, and one that will be debated for some time, is whether the U.S. could have held out for a clearer promise about Taiwan's security. As it was, the Chinese agreed only to the tactic of not objecting to, and thereby tacitly accepting, Carter's assurances that Taiwan was in no danger of invasion from the mainland and that the U.S. would continue to supply Taipei with defensive weapons...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy felt otherwise. Calling the letter "a scare tactic," he promised continued fighting for the citizens...
...used the tactic of, well, I'm a parent and I know what it's like, how kids can get on your nerves," Belisle continues. "Meanwhile, I'd watch the kids, see how they behaved, how they reacted to their parents." Adds Joanne Zannotti, Belisle's unit supervisor in Worcester: "The healthier parents are already feeling guilty and they'll bend over backward to cooperate, seek counseling." But some parents "go on insisting the child fell down a flight of stairs long after it's clear they've been hurting the child." Claims...
...effort to change the G.O.P. image and arouse voter excitement, many Republicans have been trying a different tactic this campaign. They have been championing the Kemp-Roth bill, which calls for a 33% federal income tax cut over a three-year period. The measure is based on the theory of Economist Arthur...
Fighting back, Nicaragua's longtime dictator last week declared martial law, a familiar tactic of troubled governments (see page 40). Somoza instructed his tough, 8,100-member National Guard to destroy the rebel forces and end the uprising. Guard units set out to rescue the embattled towns; in the south at Sapoá and Peña Blanca, they also violated the Costa Rican border in hot pursuit of Sandinistas. After a week of steady fighting, the conflict had taken on the proportions of a bloodbath, and U.S. diplomats met hastily with the government to speed the evacuation...