Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton's controversial decision to grant clemency to 16 Puerto Rican prisoners this summer has left few people satisfied. Opponents of the offer have condemned it as a sign to the rest of the world that the United States is soft on terrorism, mocked it as a political ploy designed to win Puerto Rican votes in Hillary Rodham Clinton's upcoming Senate run in New York and labeled it an affront to the integrity of the American justice system. Meanwhile, many supporters of clemency were displeased with the conditions attached to it, which they considered excessive, and angered...
...PLOY TO GET NEW FANS] Offers an early glimpse at a possible Miss Universe...
...PLOY TO GET NEW FANS Moved show up an hour so crowning moment is not past bedtime...
...Solutions, which is still in charge of the overall system, decided not to extend its own no-dirty-words policy to its five new peers, throwing the doors open to a Carlinized cyberspace that had the Judiciary members up in arms Wednesday. It may have been a nifty business ploy ?- if Network Solutions can keep its competitors busy registering the ----.coms and the &%$#!%.coms, its monopoly on addresses in the more respectable cyberhoods just might remain intact. The company did run the plan by the Commerce Department ?- which shrugged and pointed to the First Amendment ?- but this is just...
...easy for lawyers who represent students to criticize the administrative board as has happened in this case," he said. "It's quite a common ploy for lawyers because it distracts attention from the conduct of their clients...