Word: tactically
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...away as she berated Annan over the telephone. It sounded like a jackhammer crossbred with an opera singer. It went roughly like this: "THERE IS NO WAY THAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO THIS. NO WAY." Albright is a savvy diplomat, and the screaming was more of a debate tactic than anything else. (She says she never yelled at Annan. Their aides have a different recollection.) But though she was doing her best to stop him, Annan was going to negotiate with Saddam Hussein...
...this way, but it will be equally shameful of us if we are too timid to put an end to their attacks," Grove wrote in his e-mail message. "We must put our foot down. Because relying on isolated HUPD patrols has not succeeded we must try another tactic...
...have been completely ineffective. Worse, they are actually working to strengthen Haider's position. Haider now has a legitimate reason to point out his respect for democracy and the EU's lack thereof. His party's finance minister can now also justify the threats of using the American tactic of waiting with the payment of dues to international organizations, and Haider even has a basis for calling for a general referendum whether Austria should remain in the EU or not. Ending the long period of denial in the EU, member states are finally coming to terms with their miscalculation. After...
...surplus the fund is currently running to pay down the national debt over the next decade or so, putting the economy on sounder footing and freeing up more money (which now goes to debt servicing) to keep the fund going a while longer. It's a stall tactic, but one with tangible overall benefits in the meantime...
...will soon be back at the table. In New York City, TW has offered to make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed under a completely unfair burden...