Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laurence Wylie, 69, may be the only French-language teacher who starts his classes with a hard round of calisthenics. That tactic follows, with precise Gallic logic, from his basic premise: le français, in fact all language, is spoken mostly with the body. Says Wylie, a retired professor of French civilization at Harvard: "Just learning the rules of grammar and vocabulary isn't really enough...
With the game tied at the half, 2-2, Dartmouth scored two more goals early in the third period to go up, 4-2, before trying the questionable tactic of freezing the ball for the remainder of the game...
...retrospect, members of the caucus still stand by their judgment in the period. "I still think that the seizure was the decisive issue," Wilson says. "It became the dominant radical tactic of the time...
...Western Europe and Japan, as well as more foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges and premiums they think they can get away with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their way to try to put the blame for the increase on the industrial countries, which they chide for not curbing both energy consumption...
...Rent control does not benefit the poor or elderly. It's a scare tactic used by politicians to keep themselves in office," Fraiman said last week