Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might leave the National Party if they could help take over the government. This strategy received some support last month when Wynand Malan, one of the best known of them, announced that he was resigning from the party and would run as an independent candidate. But Eglin's ploy still seems a long shot. No other M.P.s joined Malan in leaving the party, and he said that he would not join the P.F.P. "because there are too many things in the party philosophy with which I do not agree...
...twist in The Counterlife is more confusing and shocking than the old "Alice has been dreaming" ploy, because Roth plays with the reader's fundamental desire to accept the world on the pages of the book. It somehow leaves the reader with an empty feeling to discover that Roth has published a novel written by one of his fictional characters. Yet this duality provides an insight into Roth's own mind...
...though, it was a relatively simple ploy that dashed Icahn's hopes. USX had borrowed $3.4 billion last year under terms that allowed the lenders to call in their loans immediately if the company were taken over. At the end of December, Roderick cleverly decided to use up these funds to pay off other debts. If Icahn had gained control of USX, the banks could have demanded repayment. That in effect raised the cost of taking over the company from about $7.1 billion to $10.5 billion...
...Boesky, who in 1985 owned more than 5% of Gulf & Western's stock, had collaborated to run up the price of those shares by fueling rumors that the company would be a takeover target. The two then sold their shares back to Gulf & Western for a profit. That ploy would have amounted to illegal stock manipulation. In a memorandum to his TWA staff, Icahn denounced the accusation: "I have never traded on insider information...
...does permit the use of extra-legal means to accomplish praiseworthy ends, but the protesters in question have crossed accepted bounds. Only peaceful forms of protest which break no laws, or those that break immoral laws are justifiable. These protesters, however, clearly broke laws of crucial value, as a ploy to get publicity...