Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reject the NSF suggestion that American science is on the skids. "The U.S. is still the most productive nation in the world," said Nobel-prize winning Economist Paul A. Samuelson at last week's symposium. A few suspect that the alarm over U.S. scientific performance may be a ploy to win more money for research. Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of a Washington-based newsletter called Science and Government Report, wrote during a similar scare two years ago that "the elders of science are possessed by visions of doom" that can only be exorcised by more money...
...only red-hot issue" in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Unfortunately for the Secretary of State, the man he is making uncomfortably warm at times is none other than President Gerald Ford. For months, right-wing Republicans have been rallying behind Ronald Reagan, whose most effective campaign ploy has been to argue that the Secretary is cozying up unnecessarily to the Soviets. Washington last week was electric with rumors that Ford was thinking seriously of dumping Kissinger. With a key primary coming up on May 1 in Texas-where the G.O.P. right is especially strong-it looked...
...affected the President's strategy, moving Ford to the right on many issues. The President has tried to make his Soviet policy sound tougher by purging the word detente. In Florida he sought to attract votes from Cuban Americans by denouncing Fidel Castro as an "international outlaw." This ploy failed; Cuban Americans voted heavily for Reagan because they correctly saw him as more anti-Castro than Ford...
...hockey games and a heart-lung resuscitator. The police and feds had video-taped every transaction, and even got the unsuspecting sellers to show drivers' licenses or other identification. ("We told them we had to be sure who we were dealing with," said one officer.) The imaginative ploy, which was similar to one in New York City a year ago, paid an added dividend: many of the customers tried to impress the supposedly Mafia-connected fences with tales of crimes they had got away with. Their boasts-plus the loot-have led to 10,000 investigations including murder, bank...
...rich-quick schemes could not have succeeded without the cooperation of venal clinic owners, many of them nonphysicians. The favorite ploy was to disguise the kickbacks as rent; that is, the clinic owners would sublease their office space to the labs-which often did not use it. The more patients the doctor sent to the labs, the more rent he would collect. One lab representative told a disguised investigator: "If the volume goes up ten times, rent could go up ten times." A clinic could collect $1,000 a month by renting a cubbyhole containing only a chair. TIME Correspondent...