Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressman for their support." If the president can't be that tough, he must at least appear that way. Ford apparently does not care for Lon Nol or for the Cambodian people as much as he has been claiming lately. Instead, he seems to be using an old presidential ploy: force Congress into an untenable position, and then tell the voters you told them so. Tell them you did all you could, but that Congress just wouldn't go along...
...fill their order books by playing one nation against the other. "What I like doing," admitted a European arms salesman visiting Colombia, "is selling one weapon here in Bogota and then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...
...With the current backing of trial cases, pre-trial observation often lasts for months, even years. Other inmates wind up at Bridgewater because their lawyers have tried to obtain shorter sentences for them by having them plead insanity Because most "patients" are given drugs--often against their will--the ploy can easily backfire, burdening taxpayers, destroying the minds and lives of human beings...
...General William Saxbe and current A.B. A. President James Fellers have all urged Congress to raise the salaries as well as the number of judges. But recession-laden legislators are likely to turn a deaf ear. It may be that the judges' only recourse is a semi-serious ploy proposed by one of them during last week's meeting. Citing the Constitution's command that a judge's pay "shall not be diminished," he suggested suing, arguing that failure to give cost-of-living increases amounted to such a cut. One problem with the suit...
...shrewd commercial ploy, McDonald's had agreed to give every ticket-stub holder a hamburger, an order of French fries and a Coke if Indiana held any opponent to fewer than 50 points during a basketball game in Bloomington. In the three hours after the contest, the two McDonald's served up 5,760 free meals...