Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Menem's Ploy...
...political ploy," he said. "I sure hope the senator doesn't get away with...
...thwart the explosion, according to secretly taped conversations between informant Emad Salem and his FBI handlers. In the most startling passage, leaked to the press last week, an agent seemingly accepts Salem's claim that the bombing could have been averted through his undercover work, including a proposed ploy to substitute inert powder for explosives...
...many members, both past and present, say the decision to delay going co-ed was a political ploy to maintain the support--both spiritual and financial--of some graduates. They say they had to balance the desire to affect change with the reluctance of some graduates to break a 157-year-old tradition...
...also said his re-entry was "not a campaign ploy" to grab headlines and that the flip-flop probably hurt his contest because about two-thirds of all votes are cast on the first day of polling, which was Tuesday...