Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...viability or merit. Texas politics are unique, but the fact that 34 states currently have "right to carry" laws on the books offers a compelling reason to consider it carefully. The law also enjoys bipartisan support across socioeconomic lines; it should not be dismissed lightly as a ridiculous ploy of the National Rifle Association...
...timing is actually just a ploy to keep us away from Augusta, "Senior Will Curry cracks...
...four-part peace plan calling for dividing the Balkan country into 10 semiautonomous regions. On Friday General Ratko Mladic, the commander of Bosnia's Serbs, agreed to a cease-fire early this week. Whether that amounted to a real military pause just short of the goal -- or a ploy -- remained to be seen...
Serbs often offer safe passage out of areas they are attacking, but Bosnian and U.N. officials regard the ploy as part of the Serb campaign to rid the area of non-Serbs. Serb officials seemed to confirm that with a statement that Muslims and Serbs "will not live together ever again." In spite of the U.N.'s reluctance to assist in the "cleansing," General Philippe Morillon, head of the peacekeeping force in Bosnia, went to Cerska on Friday to try, apparently unsuccessfully, to negotiate an evacuation...
...Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali eventually endorsed the plan, but some members of the Security Council continued to fret privately about the wisdom of the airlift. European allies suspected Clinton's initiative might have resulted from the need to be seen as doing something more active -- a public relations ploy designed to display American leadership. But the airlift also signaled a degree of U.S. engagement that the Europeans have encouraged...