Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incumbents from office. Reagan, however, escaped blame; by then, he had left office and was off and running for the White House. This time, we hope he is not so lucky. Congress should reject his New Federalism and expose it for what it really is: the President's latest ploy to escape responsibility for the virtual war he has declared on America's needy...
...warn of the risks and difficulties of reacting so forcefully. Haig's reaction was visceral. Rather than take Kissinger's critique as an intellectual challenge to Administration policy, which it was, the Secretary of State told aides that he saw it as a power grab-a ploy by Kissinger to get his old job back...
...offer to send agents to Iran to strengthen Tehran's intelligence and security forces, as well as bolster the Islamic Guard, the I.R.P.'s military arm. Another Soviet team was dispatched to assist in rebuilding the country's devastated economy. Now the Soviets, in their boldest ploy to date, are pressing Iran to sign a mutual cooperation pact that would effectively draw Khomeini's revolutionary government into Moscow's sphere of influence...
...This ploy proved fatal, however, when defenseman Paula Joyce of Dartmouth saw an opening with 42 seconds left to play, and shot the puck straight into the Crimson net from near her own goal, bringing the score to 4-2 and clinching the victory for Dartmouth...
...process is partly a familiar ploy. Stockman plays bad cop with his drastic proposals. Good Cop Reagan then restores some of the cuts, seeming humane even as he effects sizable savings. By leaking word of some of Stockman's planned cuts, and then winning a few appeals, Cabinet chiefs have been able to regain some credibility with their constituencies...