Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have not had a proper capability for a limited response. The directive will permit us to substantially increase intelligence satellites and command and controls." Huntington said, adding that the decision was the outcome of a detailed three-year study and did not represent a political reelection ploy...
...point, this ploy seems to have been successful. Gaddafi did send a personal note to Khomeini urging once again that the hostages be freed. But the request had no impact at all on the Ayatullah for a reason that should have been quite clear to the White House: Gaddafi had no influence with Khomeini. Even more baffling was Brzezinski's use of the unorthodox Billy channel when State Department routes for approaching Gaddafi had been carefully cultivated...
...Washington. For one thing, he had worked with a Vice President he admired, Nelson Rockefeller, and yet their two staffs had constantly quarreled. Now he and his family had worked out a fine life, and they were all enjoying themselves. He did not want to become "an election ploy." But as the group broke up, about 2 a.m., one participant turned back to Betty for her opinion. "Whatever is needed," she said...
...most glaring case was Saudi Industrialist Ghaith Pharaon's ploy to hook up with the Georgia good-ole-boy network. The Saudi financier bought from President Carter's former Budget Director and confidant Bert Lance most of his shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million, a price far above the market value; other Arab moneymen reportedly arranged a loan for Lance of about $3.5 million. In another case, a group of Arabs, led by a shadowy sheik named Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi internal intelligence, touched off a confusing imbroglio in Washington...
...network $90 million a year in advertising revenues. It does come as some surprise, however, that the mere mention of Host Carson's name can also affect the stock market. Last week a few of Carson's friends and relatives were caught in an embarrassing, illegal stock ploy to capitalize on inside information about the entertainer's participation in a Las Vegas casino deal...