Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result of this cheap word ploy? Paragraphs like this one, in which the essential "message" of the exhibit is expressed: "...for the/next time you/see someone wi/th dark hair and/brown or yello/w skin and wan/t to identify the/m with the term/asian american/realize that ho/w you see them/may or may not/be how they ch/oose to/identify/themselves...
Dance attendees seemed to relish the theme of Anti-Valentine's not merely out of bitterness, but also out of playful cynicism. Although people did not go as far as calling Valentine's Day a spawn of Satan, many view it as a commercialized ploy. Leverett's Aaron Caughey '95 found the idea of Anti-Valentine's Day Dances "fabulous. I think Valentine's Day puts a lot of pressure on people. But this says it's okay to be single--there's no pressure. Valentine's Day is a bit of a marketing thing--you know 'how much stuff...
...vehicle for this is Microsoft's first online service, the Microsoft Network (msn), which Gates unveiled this month. In a typical Gates marketing ploy, the network software comes bundled with every copy of Windows 95. This gives his offering an edge over every other online service promising access to the Internet. "The numbers are pretty simple," says Allen Weiner, an analyst at Dataquest. If only 10% of the 30 million people expected to buy Windows 95 this year click on the button that lets them connect to msn-and through it, the Internet-that's 3 million customers...
...national headquarters in Dallas--began organizing public meetings at the county level, ostensibly to canvass the group's rank and file, as well as anyone else who cares to attend, on whether they think formation of a new party is in the national interest. In spirit, the ploy resembles Perot's 1992 appeal for public guidance on whether to run for President...
...give Mexico the huge peso-protecting cushion that critics envisioned. It's true, as Perot will gladly remind you, that he actually predicted a post-NAFTA peso devaluation. But not this kind of devaluation. In his scenario, a secretly planned devaluation would be triumphantly unveiled -- a wily Latino ploy that by cheapening Mexican goods, would amplify the sucking sound. Reality proved less rife with intrigue than Perot's imagination. Mexico's leaders actually fought devaluation long and hard but were overwhelmed by the skittishness of foreign investors, including their worries about Mexican political turmoil...