Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...votein the Duma,Russian President Boris Yeltsinfired three security ministers for bungling their duties in the southern Russia hostage crisis. Yeltsin, whom TIME's Bruce Nelan calls "a very good politician in terms of what looks good to the public," tried what has been widely considered as a political ploy to appease the Duma. "Everyone is assuming this is a very cynical political move, especially since Yeltsin didn't fire (Defense Minister Pavel) Grachev, one of his oldest supporters, as the Duma wished. But Yeltsin also had good reason to be unhappy with the way the security ministers mishandled...
...says it doesn't have the resources to pursue the leads it is getting. In one closely watched investigation, the Justice Department is reported to have assigned a team to look into Gates' plan to bundle software for Microsoft Network in every copy of Windows 95-a brilliant marketing ploy that could instantly make the company a key player, if not the key player, on the information highway...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin rudely rebuffed Japan's offer to send rescuers and doctors to aid victims of Sunday's 7.5 earthquake, calling the suggeston a ploy to "take advantage" of Russia's plight. "Russia itself can heal the wounds inflicted by the earthquake," Yeltsin added. If Russia accepted the aid, he said "They [the Japanese] will say: give us back the islands." That was a reference to a long-standing dispute between the two countries over control of the four southernmost islands of the Kurile chain, which were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World...
Although Gibson uses his carefully-chosen themes and visual elements to good effect, the ploy is obvious. While these devices put together a decent movie, the viewer is perfectly aware that it is manufactured for the times. The whole "prima notte" issue, for example, clearly alludes to the sexual-military tactics used in Bosnia. Tentative stereotyping still mars the actors' roles including the French princess, trained to rule but unable to deny her soft female heart. Enjoying this movie calls for a generous does of cluelessness to ignore the tired machinery so obviously creaking behind the scenes...
...resist the exhibition after all the hype, and agreed to show the mermaid at Concert Hall for one week only. By chance, after this week, the mermaid moved to the AmericanMuseum, where Barnum welcomed it with an 18-footflag of a beautiful mermaid. Barnum dismissed allthis as a "ploy" to attract people to his museum.His carefully-planned publicity campaign workedwell; museum receipts almost tripled, and themermaid was off to tour the country...