Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whom had been charged by the Cubans with drug trafficking or drug possession. But after they stepped from their plane at Dulles International Airport near Washington, a cheering throng of friends and relatives greeted them with tears of joy that transcended the politics of Jackson's ploy. Said William Snyder, a paper-mill foreman in Calhoun, Tenn., and father of freed Prisoner Alan Snyder, 24: "The Reagan Administration may be more or less disappointed, but I am tickled to death...
...outer space" and begin negotiating a ban on weapons that could destroy satellites. Before Shultz could discuss the matter with President Reagan at a prearranged meeting at the White House, the Soviet news agency TASS began releasing the proposal to the world. Whether or not the offer was a ploy, its publication forced the Administration to produce an immediate response. Said one official: "If we rejected the move, or said we would study it, they would have scored a propaganda coup...
...bring its throw weight down to the U.S. level. Haig rebutted Weinberger. Slamming down his fist and fixing his steeliest gaze on Reagan, Haig warned that the Pentagon's option would be dismissed not just by the Soviets but by the U.S.'s allies as a cynical ploy, and that the result would be "a military and political catastrophe." How the President resolved the dispute, said Haig, would be "the most important decision of your Administration." Rostow sided with Weinberger and delivered a lengthy, withering indictment of Haig, accusing him of timidity and of favoring an approach...
...York thugs," said Greg Kieselmann, co-manager of institutional research at Morgan, Olmstead, Kennedy & Gardner, a Los Angeles brokerage firm. That rather vivid imagery was typical of the investment world's reaction last week after Financier Saul P. Steinberg zapped Walt Disney Productions with a market ploy that made him $32 million richer but may have left Disney much weaker. Steinberg, 44, had just pulled off the latest example of a spreading tactic called greenmail, Wall Street's version of blackmail...
...Robert Williams was convicted of murdering Pamela Powers, 10, in Iowa. That conviction was appealed to the Supreme Court and was thrown out in 1977 because of a famous illegal police interrogation-the "Christian burial" ploy...