Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostages" and raises "serious questions about Kennedy's judgment on foreign policy." Press comment was strongly unfavorable and occasionally stinging. The Washington Post: "It wasn't right, it wasn't responsible, and it wasn't smart." The Atlanta Constitution: "Kennedy, in a cynical campaign ploy against the incumbent President who cannot respond, has publicly sided with the Khomeini anarchy in Iran." The Houston Post: "Kennedy cannot be excused on grounds of inexperience. The incident is clear and will remain on his record...
...human behavior is concerned, to characterize the debate as biological determinism is a dangerous and specious rhetorical ploy. Learning has an evolved genetic basis with organized and discoverable characteristics leading to adaptation. Behavior can be, with no paradox, simultaneously the result of cultural and evolutionary forces, in equally meaningful but very different senses. Evolution shapes the nature of the developmental programming which guides learning, and socialization is the process by which the panhuman learning system adapts the individual to her or his cultural surroundings...
...crew were detained for several hours for "taking secret pictures of the embassy." ABC and CBS finally made it "on campus," as the compound was called, but the students they interviewed spoke so haltingly and solemnly that the results resembled a Saturday Night Live sendup. "A pure propaganda ploy," groused a CBS newsman...
...doubts erupted into a debate that occupied the attention of the physicians inside New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center as well as student picketers on the street outside. The Tehran government and anti-Shah activists in the U.S. charged that the Shah had used his illness as a political ploy to seek permanent sanctuary here. In the hospital, some staffers suggested sotto voce that the Shah's physicians were exaggerating his ailments: a gall bladder obstruction and histiocytic lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system for which the Shah has been under treatment for the past six years. Said...
...press, delayed the release of four politically sensitive decisions until after Election Day, 1978, in order to boost Chief Justice Rose Bird's chances for confirmation by the voters? and 2) Had any of the justices or members of their staffs leaked word of such a ploy to the Los Angeles Times, which printed the story on Election...