Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state that sends 153 delegates to the national convention. Not that the decision was easy for Gilligan. His state organization would have preferred him to lead an uncommitted delegation to Miami so that Ohio would have bargaining room at the convention. But party reform discouraged such a tactic (TIME, Dec. 6). Gilligan could have kept control of the delegation by declaring himself a favorite son, but he would have risked looking like a political boss. He chose instead to back the man most likely...
...coke-snorting smuggler, a crooked Army quartermaster, a deceptively dippy hooker and a smooth-talking expert in alarm systems. Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof. The hooker is greedy, the alarms expert larcenous and the bank eminently susceptible to a shrewd variation on the Trojan-horse tactic...
...fact both materiel losses and casualties appear to have run far higher than in the east. Most of the sites were the very places where the two armies slugged it out in their last war in 1965. Yet there were no all-out offensives. The Indian army's tactic was to maintain a defensive posture, launching no attacks except where they assisted its defenses...
...several currencies much more than their governments had contemplated. The Europeans feared that would bring in a flood of imports from the U.S., wiping out jobs in their countries. The U.S. has no chance of getting a 10% devaluation generally accepted, but the offer was an effective bargaining tactic that put the Europeans and Japanese on the defensive. They concluded that they would have to refigure how large a U.S. devaluation they could swallow, and what changes they would make in their own currencies...
Which brings up the whole subject of sex. Well now, you have to do something to make newspapers sell!) Gore Vidal writes in a recent New York Review that the sexual smear is a tactic of the right wing rather than the left. Until I saw Nixon! I was inclined to believe him. However, Nixon! brings into the open a theme that winds subterraneanly through a good deal of Nixon criticism. The Nixons, you see, are thought to be frigid, asexual, virgin or impotent. So no wonder the left never attacks sexual misadventure on the right--the left...