1.   The tactic gives candidates time to lay out their themes and contrast themselves with their opponents.

2.   The tactic has given her more time at home with her two teen-agers.

3.   When successful, this tactic gives more power to federal regulators, more money to lawyers filing federal lawsuits and more job security within the civil rights industry.

4.   Some analysts speculated that a stall tactic could give Qwest an escape hatch out of the deal.

5.   The tactic has given voters, most of whom are paying little attention to the campaign, an easy script to follow.

6.   Their one-two tactic gave Christoph Bechmann a goal-scoring pass whose push was saved by a Pakistani defender on the line.