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...Clinton's stimulus package with a filibuster. Currently, they're threatening to filibuster health-care legislation. If it feels as if we're living through a filibuster epidemic, we are: two-thirds of the nation's filibusters have taken place since rule changes in the mid-'60s made the tactic easier to pull off. Strom Thurmond holds the individual record (24 hrs., 18 min., against the Civil Rights...
...executives said, 'I do not believe ... ' -- a very calculated legal tactic. They can say they were expressing their own personal opinion...
...there remains about Spike's work what is sometimes an almost uncomfortable complexity," proclaims Pynchon, later anointing Jones as "a conceptual artist with a head for business." One would like to drag semiology in here too, for the Slickers never saw a text they couldn't subvert. But Jones' tactic was not deconstruction so much as demolition. His long-touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action verb, pithily expressing what the man did to music. He drove it into the ground, he impaled it on a drumstick, he laced...
Embarrassing the boss is another tactic. In April, 64 members of the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union stormed the North Carolina golf course where the Greensboro Open, an event on the Professional Golfers' Association tour, was in progress. They were arrested, but their protest was splashed all over TV and local papers -- to the distress of their employer, K Mart, which spent $2 million to sponsor the event. "Our bargaining leverage improved dramatically," says Bruce Raynor, ACTWU executive vice president...
...exception was a farcical 135.5-109.5 loss to Princeton. The loss was a farce in that the Tigers shaved for the meet and the Crimson didn't a sure-fire seconds-shaving tactic usually reserved for more important, end-of-the-season meets...