Word: tactics
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...strategy is targeted to athletes in particular because they often face intense pressure from interested colleges to accept or decline an offer of admission, and if Harvard doesn’t act early they might be compelled to accept another school’s bid.According to Fitzsimmons, these recruiting tactics are often called “exploding offers,” where a student athlete must make a decision within a short frame of time.PLAYING THE FIELDJacques A. Barjon, a senior at St. Marks School of Texas in Dallas, had been communicating with an assistant coach from Harvard?...
...rewarded higher than those who join later, increasing the incentive for people to join. So just by repeating something over and over again, momentum may be created. This, when employed with other propaganda techniques, can create a long lasting impact.More often than not, propagandists also use card-sticking, a tactic that involves promoting an extreme position and discrediting counterarguments and opposing points of view. This may seem counter-intuitive: how can an argument be sustained if it takes an unrealistic stance? Yet it is this very extreme position that enables its survival and growth of public sentiment in support...
...because it would actually draw attention,” he said. According to Krahel, the protest was inspired by Billionaires for Bush—a national grassroots campaign that satirically supports President Bush in order to express its view of corporate interests—and derived from a similar tactic used by protesters last May in support of raising wages for security guards. Word of the protest was spread through campus e-mail lists, with a farcical flyer that asserted, “This war is needed to stimulate our economy and protect our homeland...
...scene, "it wouldn't bother me one bit - that's exactly what we're working for." Tuerk, a 75-year-old retired real estate broker who lives on a quiet 20-acre parcel in a wooded valley outside the city of Snohomish, added that she does not condone the tactic of burning down new homes to protect the environment. "It's stupid for anyone to go out and take the law into their own hands and commit a crime in order to accomplish making a change in laws or ordinances when you can work through a process," she said. Still...
...Game Plan In his memoir, Obama recalls a tactic he learned as a black teenager in a white world. "People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves," he writes. "They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time...