Chinese officials take the opposite tack, promising to encourage more consumption and less saving.
The conservative opposition Law and Justice party, meanwhile, has taken a populist tack, promising to reopen closed mines if it wins the autumn's parliamentary elections.
The President has finally changed tack, promising to pay for his largesse with subsequent spending cuts and tax increases, some of which he will lay out next week in a long-term deficit-reduction plan.
In Germany, the recently re-elected government of Angela Merkel has taken a different tack, promising to increase the number of public child care slots but also creating an allowance for families who care for very young children at home.
An exhausted SPD is now tacking to the left by promising tax increases and no more reform, partly to fend off the rise of a new hard-left party.
Liberals hit back by tacking on their own spontaneous postscripts, promising to serve the nation "in accordance with the demands of the revolution".
Stung by criticism that interagency fights have slowed the pace of the rebuilding in Lower Manhattan, officials overseeing the planning are taking a new tack: acknowledging their previous disagreements while also promising that the effort will soon pick up speed.
Typically, cults will lure members in promising to teach members techniques for self-improvement or altruism not necessarily with a veneer of tacked on spirituality, or a super charismatic Jesus leader.
Typically, contemporary cults will lure members in promising to teach members techniques for self-improvement or altruism not necessarily with a veneer of tacked on spirituality, or a super charismatic Jesus leader.
Alexanders' reflection-in-action was to try and change tack when he sensed the old idea would not work and a new idea seemed more promising.
