Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's advisers are confident not only that Moscow's ploy will fail and the President will be reelected, but that once the Soviets are faced with the reality of another four years of this Administration, they will swallow their pride, along with their words, and get back to the business of trade, diplomacy and arms control...
...cynic might view this recent phenomenon as a propaganda ploy by members of the self-important Baby Boom generation. They were the coolest generation while they were under 30, and they intend to remain the coolest now that they are approaching middle...
...President George Bush, acting in his role of G.O.P. stalking horse for '84, was quick to condemn not only Farrakhan and Jackson but Mondale and Hart, neither of whom made much of an issue of the ethnic slurs in order to avoid offending black voters. Bush's ploy was "a great political stroke," admitted a Mondale aide. "It was simple, crude and effective...
...Mexicans the Simpson-Mazzoli proposal represent Rep. Roybal's bill may be less ambitious than Simpson-Mazzoli, but it is more feasible. Unlike Simpson-Mazzoli it does not count on employers and undocumented workers to come forward of their own accord. Rather than view this bill as an obstructionist ploy by a Hispanic congressman--as one senator referred to it--Congress and the President must address the issues it raises in legislation. Immigration reform should constitute more than a political football; its complexity makes quick congressional action impossible...
...within the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which helps finance financial aid. The more that students give to the scholarship funds, the less of the "general fund" Harvard has to divert there to meet that year's need. Practically, offering the "scholarship fund" is a meaningless ploy...