Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Nixon, or has tried to use the press as a tool for its foreign policy goals--as Lyndon Johnson did during the Vietnam War, and as Reagan has during the turmoil in Grenada and Nicaragua--reporters have little excuse for being duped by this Administration's latest ploy...
...White House was careful to avoid specifics, lest it offend voters who might lose tax breaks. Instead, the President announced that he was ordering Donald Regan, then Secretary of the Treasury, to prepare recommendations that would be released after the election. That directive was widely derided as a transparent ploy, but it worked, thanks partly to some unwitting assistance from Democratic Nominee Walter Mondale. Bradley and Gephardt had visited Mondale to plead that he adopt tax reform as a major issue, but the nominee declined, preferring to plump for a tax increase that turned out to be about as popular...
...reporters last week. The locals understand the artist-model relationship, and they figure they know Andy Wyeth. So dismissive are they of any charge of infidelity that they are willing to entertain -- and be entertained by -- the possibility of a Wyeth scam. "This whole thing could be a ploy," said Karl J. Kuerner III, who lives on top of Kuerner Hill, where Wyeth frequently sketched his grandparents. An employee at the Brandywine called it the "best stunt I've ever seen...
Feldstein termed the House measure "simply awful. It's full of nonsense; it's mischievous." However, he also felt the legislation was little more than a tactical ploy designed to give House Democrats a campaign issue in November's congressional elections. Feldstein predicted that any legislation that emerged from the Senate would be much milder. Nonetheless, he warned, "if the economy were to become very weak, it may become a real piece of legislation...
...ploy, says one Manhattan investment analyst, was "a major strategic ) error." For one thing, he notes, People was "going after the smallest sector of the flying public," since only about 11% of all airline passengers fall into the business and luxury classes. For another, the seduction was bound to fail, since such well-heeled travelers could often get more reliable and comfortable service, albeit at higher prices, from conventional airlines...