Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steel for control of Marathon Oil turned nasty last week. Mobil, still frustrated and angry over its defeat by Du Pont earlier this year in the struggle to take over Conoco, seemed on the brink of losing again. Then Mobil suddenly went on the offensive with a daring ploy. The oil company announced that it intended to buy up to 25% of its bidding rival, U.S. Steel. Said one banker involved in the dealing: "They have tried to put a gun on the head of U.S. Steel...
Cohen supplies a few "Soviet-style" ploys of his own: hanging up the phone in midsentence, for example, giving the impression you were cut off and thus gaming a little additional time to think things over. Then there is the "nibble": leading your opponent deep into negotiations, so that he has invested much time and effort in them: seeming to make a settlement, then demanding one last concession: a free neck tie, for example, to go with a couple of suits. There is a wonderfully grasping vulgarity in the ploy, an effrontery that should be greeted with admiration, at least...
Still with a man advantage, the Crimson maintained its attack, pulling Better in favor of a sixth attacker. The ploy paid off when Starbuck picked the puck out of a scramble in front of the Northeastern goal and deposited it in the net to tie the score with just 39 seconds remaining. Harvard dominated the five-minute overtime, but was unable to capitalize...
...earnest, each side will continue to try to score points with the European audience that is caught precariously in the balance. But Reagan's initiative deserves to be taken by the Soviets, as well as by the U.S. and the Europeans, as more than a public relations ploy. If treated seriously by both sides, it could indeed be, as he suggested, a "giant step" toward peace. The dream it embodies, the hope it nourishes, is shared by not only the Western Europeans but by the Soviet and American people as well: to reduce the world's awesome arsenals...
...That ploy was designed to force Republican Senators to cast embarrassing no votes. The struggle seemed likely to be ended less by any hard-fought compromise of deeply held principles than by a weary desire on the part of both Congress and the President to get out of Washington for a Thanksgiving holiday...