Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just one vote shy of sustaining the veto. He tried to engineer a procedural tactic with John Tower-who, much to the anger of Senate leaders, had unexpectedly flown back to his home state of Texas-that would use his vote to block the override, but the ploy failed. Twenty-one Republicans sided with 39 Democrats against the President, while only three Democrats and Independent Harry Byrd of Virginia joined 26 Republicans to support...
Rather disparages "quick fixes" like the theft of Ellis from channel 5. His 1977 book, The Camera Never Blinks, acknowledges that for many stations, "If your ratings are low, (you) just go across town and hire the other station's anchorman." He strongly opposes this ploy, saying "the feeling is that what counts is what is on the marquee, not the integrity of your news," and argues that, in the long run, superficial facelifts do little to boost ratings...
...I.O.R.'s letters of patronage seemed to help Calvi, at least temporarily. But in the end even this ploy failed. When Calvi asked the I.O.R. to renew the letters, which expired in June 1982, Marcinkus turned him down. Another setback soon followed. After the Bank of Italy demanded that Ambrosiano account for its huge foreign lending, the bank's directors overruled Calvi and agreed to cooperate...
...finding mission to the Middle East were in agreement in their perceptions of the situation there and that they acted in concert in dealing with leaders of the warring factions. That was clearly not the case. From the beginning, I saw the meeting with Yasser Arafat as a propaganda ploy by the P.L.O., and I chose not to attend it. I immediately denounced the document that Congressman Pete McCloskey obtained from Arafat as nothing new and possibly a harmful deception...
...P.L.O. was about to recognize Israel's right to exist. The Congressman said he would urge the U.S. to open direct dealings with the P.L.O. But McCloskey's euphoria was soon punctured. Within hours the so-called Arafat document was denounced by Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came after a stinging cable from House Speaker Tip O'Neill instructing the congressional delegation, whose trip he had routinely authorized, to refrain from making statements in his name...