Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latest Ploy. Mintoff has a delicate problem in deciding how far to proceed with his threats. He needs the British on Malta, because the island's economy is staggering. Unemployment is up to 7%, tourism has fallen off and emigration is on the rise. Mintoff's Labor Party holds only a one-seat majority over Dr. George Borg Olivier's Nationalists and would likely lose any election held now. The Prime Minister has not exactly increased his popularity with the 330,000 Maltese by threatening to make them repatriate investments kept abroad, including an estimated $500 million...
...Administration ploy was part of a long feud with the Post, exacerbated in recent months by the paper's relentless pursuit of the Watergate and other political-espionage stories. Reverting to "frontal attacks" after the Horner stories appeared, Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson accused the Post of "McCarthyism" in its use of anti-G.O.P. allegations. Colson described Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee as the "self-appointed leader of a tiny fringe of arrogant elitists." Remarked Bradlee: "I just don't think I'm going to answer that stuff from Mr. Colson." His reaction...
...this melange of heavy drama and unbroken noise-making is as old as Hollywood's infant epics. The vulgar baroque that once amazed, is muted in The Savage Messiah and serves only to exacerbate the bankruptcy of Russell's vision. He projects his messiah pose as a ploy to forestall criticism altogether. It is understandable for an artist to indulge privately the idea that art is the savior of culture. But to force his own messianic fancies on the public is hardly fair. He flaunts his faith in the sublime at the risk of the ridiculous, and his gamble fails...
...opponents proclaimed a "day of silence" during which Santiagoans would stay at home, leaving city streets "like a desert." Instead, the city's thoroughfares were jammed with cars and pedestrians. Bands of government rooters mocked the opposition by roaming through central Santiago shouting "?Silencio! ?Silencio!" In a clever ploy, the government managed to put ample supplies of meat, which has been scarce for several months, in many Santiago shops. Not even residents of wealthier suburbs -who normally would have supported the day of silence-could resist such bait. They turned out to shop, often in the city...
...giant industry as no other U.S. company does-is practically incontestable. The Justice Department estimates that some 70% of all revenues spent in the U.S. last year on general-purpose digital computers went to IBM, v. 8.1% to Honeywell Inc., its nearest competitor. Last week's legal ploy left the Government maximum bargaining room for a later out-of-court settlement. It also may string out the litigation for several more years, forcing IBM to continue a growing policy of caution toward smaller competitors...