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...company stock-a practice he now wants to ban. In 1989 Harken concealed losses by selling most of a subsidiary to an off-the-books entity controlled by company insiders. Bush was on the audit committee, which, at least in theory, approved the deal. It's the same tactic used by Enron-on a massive, more pernicious scale-before it imploded...
Greenblatt and others have argued that a boycott undermines the “truth-seeking” goals of the academy and is not an appropriate tactic to indicate support for Palestinians...
Followers of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong often use high-tech tools to spread their message in China, where the sect is banned. But the group's latest tactic--overriding Chinese satellite Sinosat 1 and replacing its regular programming for 10 minutes last week with fuzzy text reading "Falun Dafa Is Good"--stunned government officials with its sophistication. (Falun Dafa is the name given to the group's beliefs.) To pull off the feat, the activists needed a nearly 30-ft. satellite dish plus about $1 million worth of equipment that would fire a perfectly tuned beam at Sinosat...
Finally, the daughter used a tested tactic in such parent-child standoffs: bring in a trusted third party--a sibling, friend, doctor, lawyer or priest--to speak with the balky parent. In this case the daughter asked the facility's doctor to help. He told the sick woman that the facility had to send someone every day to supervise her medication; otherwise it would feel obliged to move her to its assisted-living section. "It was put to her as a choice," her daughter explains. "Finally she agreed...
...foot and raising his hand to his mouth. For 12 bars they do some snazzy vaudeville tap figures in synch and turn in toward each other. This is the moment when dancers would normally embrace and spin off together, but these two stop just short of touching. This tactic continues through most of the number: every time the music, or their steps, seem ready to force them into a clutch, or at least a collision, they stop short and back off. Facing close - his hands open to hold her, hers raised to him like a crossing guard's Stop signal...