Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...telling aides that he would look weak if he appeared to yield under pressure. Instead, Carter and Strauss preferred to gamble on a quick convention victory, seeking to set the rules debate for the opening day, and, if the President won, guaranteeing his nomination then and there. But this tactic also risks an early fight that Carter could conceivably lose, displaying major differences under the white heat of television lights. Almost as bad, Carter might win the fight narrowly but in the process unnecessarily arouse the resentment of a sizable minority of delegates-and emerge as the nominee...
...White House tactic will be a "choke-them-with-candor operation," contended one senior presidential aide, in an unwitting reminder of the Nixon White House's deceitful "Operation Candor," launched as a desperate Watergate defense. But if the Republicans really want to "raise memories of things gone by," Powell warned, "it would be worthwhile to compare this to Watergate in detail. The President
Some Iranians were kind and helpful with small favors, such as fetching books and clothes for the captives. Others liked to harass them; one tactic was to ignore their knocks on their doors to delay them from going to the bathroom or getting something they needed. The tougher captors, including a fellow called "Old Stoneface" by the hostages, "were on a real ego trip," says Queen. "This was the big moment of their lives." Queen was blindfolded whenever he left his room, and except for his roommates, he was not allowed to speak to other hostages...
Like the mock execution, the talk of a release that never occurred might have been a tactic to demoralize the prisoners. But Queen believes that there really was an effort to free them that the students or their allies thwarted. Queen overheard some captors "really cursing the government, particularly the foreign ministry. They were saying: 'We've been betrayed again.' Evidently, the foreign ministry had worked some kind of a deal...
Sills, who called the injunction an "extremely rare tactic used only in the most egregious cases," said a National Labor Relations Board hearing scheduled for next fall will decide whether or not the employees are entitled to back...