"It's probably heavier on the male jock talk than strategy would dictate for them," said Paul Begala, a political consultant who was a senior adviser in Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign.

The bid's strategy, Mr. Johnson said, dictated that African committee members be pursued, not necessarily because those members had their hands out, but because they were the swing votes.

But the corporate strategy dictates that the two cars must look and feel different from each other.

This strategy dictates that the investor take the 30 Dow Jones Industrial stocks and divide the dividend yield of each one by the square root of the stock price.

Conventional strategy dictates that having framed the election along these lines, McCain should emphasize his superiority in each respect.

In the end, rights groups and Congressional staff members said, political strategy dictated the narrower approach.

Rise of Regional Operations Finally, until the 1970's, many of the overseas operations served only one country's marketplace, a strategy often dictated by tariff barriers.

Not that any strategy dictated it.

"We're letting our strategy dictate what we do, not anyone else's," Mr. Osheyack said, by reminding advertisers and readers "of the inherent differences between our magazine and the others out there."

Traditional strategy would have dictated also walking the next batter, Bell, loading the bases and setting up a force play at home.