Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whether placing unauthorized articles in a laundry bag is an honor violation" when taken out of context is sure to be misunderstood. No cadet has ever been found guilty of an honor violation by simply having some proscribed item hidden in his laundry bag. Indeed, I employed that tactic myself on numerous occasions when looking for a good hiding place. If, however, a cadet lied about such an item, then he would be guilty of an honor violation. The hon or code has always been predicated on the assumption that the absolute truth of a cadet's word should...
Once his tax measures are drawn up by the Finance Committee, Long steers them through the full Senate with consummate finesse. One favorite tactic is to load bills with amendments he is willing to jettison. As each proposal goes over board, Long ? the model of compromise and sweet reason ? exacts support for the points that are truly dear to his heart. Says Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "He cut his teeth on this institution, and he's probably the most skillful tactician on the floor in managing his bills...
Discard's comeback appeared to confirm the wisdom of his election tactic ?namely, to stay above the political fray. One reason for his break with Chirac last year was Giscard's refusal to join the Gaullist leader, who then was the country's Premier, in a concerted public assault on the left. Giscard reasoned that attacks would only weld the Communists and Socialists together; if left alone, he calculated, the parties would be torn apart by internal contradictions. His analysis is proving correct...
...Swindell finished the course, he spotted a Pontiac speeding by a stop sign. "I was always 20 miles an hour slower than he was, but he was taking those curves bad," Swindell recalls. "Finally, he missed a curve and I caught him." Officer Thomas Rudd has tried another Turner tactic: staying to the left of a fleeing car. Says he: "That's very intimidating, because the only thing the guy sees in his mirror is you about to pass him. This Dodge I was chasing could have outrun me, but he just gave...
Turning to another unorthodox tactic, a Chicago doctor, Seymour Diamond, is treating migraines with biofeedback. Using machines that signal physical changes in the body with beeps or flashing lights, Diamond has been able to train some patients at his headache clinic to raise temperatures in the hand by as much as 10° to 15°. As he explains in his recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced...