Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt they played up to us," said ABC News Executive Vice President David Burke. "They're no different from anybody else." The resulting broadcasts spent little time explaining the restrictions that were imposed or discussing the possibility that Vietnamese officials might be using American TV as a propaganda ploy. One notable exception: ABC Correspondent Steve Bell's scrupulously detailed account of the curbs encountered during a tour of a military base...
...speech last week, Nakasone seemed to be trying to sidestep the bureaucracy with a direct appeal to Japanese businessmen and the public. Some critics thought that Nakasone's call for people to spend $100 on imports was a public relations ploy designed for American consumption, but many Japanese commentators considered it a reasonable and serious proposal. Despite charges that Japanese markets are closed, a wealth of American products are readily available in most Japanese cities and towns. Among them: B.F. Goodrich tires, Mercury outboard motors, Corning cookware, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Avon cosmetics, Simmons mattresses and Apple computers...
Unknown to the public, these liberals are presently eating crow. Chances are they may soon be eating vast amounts of crow. The Star Wars idea, it seems, far from being lunatic, gives every indication of being the most brilliant negotiating ploy of the decade. And, even failing that, it could conceivably become a device to save tens of millions of American lives. It all depends how Reagan decides to proceed...
...Nicaragua, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the U.S. has clearly recognized that support for guerrilla warfare can be a legitimate and effective ploy in the great game of superpower competition. Recently the Administration seems also to have come around to recognizing that its hand, while strong, should not be overplayed...
...billion years ago, would never change. Explains Preer: "It's hard to imagine how one code could evolve into another without jeopardizing the protein in the cell." Whatever the mechanism, the changes must have occurred very early on; some biologists suggest that the alterations may have been a ploy by one-celled creatures to resist viruses, which destroy cells by invading them and taking over their cellular machinery...