That said, as tentative as this diplomatic exploration may be, it probably reflects a desire among American policymakers to pursue a multilateral strategy: maintaining pressure on points of concern while at the same time seeking alternative avenues for engagement.
The $61 million Calamos Market Neutral fund is almost a decade old and operates on a different strategy, maintaining its neutrality by buying convertible bonds and selling the underlying stock.
Grave goods from as early as the eighth century B.C. show that these people were prospering through a mobile pastoral strategy, maintaining networks of cultural exchange (not always peacefully) with powerful foreign neighbors like the Persians and later the Chinese.
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They have done so using radically different strategies: Nyachol, a female prophet, employs a deterrence and offensive strategy, maintaining a heavily armed Nuer militia to deter attacks by Dinka raiders and, more recently, government forces.
He did not agree with this strategy, maintaining until his death that the force should have gone on an offensive to strike Japanese air power instead of being tied to the ground forces.
