selective strike

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• selective —    indiscriminate    It denotes various military activities, where you wish to play down the horror. Selective ordnance is usually napalm, less widely destructive than a nuclear blast but hardly discriminating in its victims. A selective strike… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• strike — strikeless, adj. /struyk/, v., struck or (Obs.) strook; struck or (esp. for 31 34) stricken or (Obs.) strook; striking; n., adj. v.t. 1. to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit …   Universalium

• Whipsaw strike — A whipsaw strike (also called a selective strike) [In Germany, the term is schwerpunktstreik .] is a strike by a trade union against only one or a few employers in an industry or a multi employer association at a time. The strike is often of a… …   Wikipedia

• 1952 steel strike — on essentially the same terms the union had proposed four months earlier. [Marcus, Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power, 1977, p. 253.] Wage control policy during the Korean WarOn February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph… …   Wikipedia

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• Punktueller Streik — Der Schwerpunktstreik auch Punktueller Streik (neuerdings auch in den deutschsprachigen Ländern zunehmend als selective strike bezeichnet) ist der Normalfall beim Arbeitskampf. Im Gegensatz zum Vollstreik verspricht er beim geringsten Einsatz der …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Schwerpunktstreik — Der Schwerpunktstreik auch Punktueller Streik (neuerdings auch in den deutschsprachigen Ländern zunehmend als selective strike bezeichnet) ist der Normalfall beim Arbeitskampf. Im Gegensatz zum Vollstreik verspricht er beim geringsten Einsatz der …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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• Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …   Universalium

• Winter Olympic coins — Although the first Olympic coin can be traced back to 480 BC, the modern Olympics did not see its first commemoratives until 1951. The original concept of Olympic coins was that the Greeks believed that coins brought the general public closer to… …   Wikipedia