Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trapped," he told his TV audience last Friday. "They won't sell ((TV airtime)) to me unless I declare as a candidate. So I may be the first guy in history that had to declare as a candidate so he could buy TV time." No telling where this ploy ends. (See related story on page...
...anyway, about 90 percent of clinic patients see a nurse, not a doctor, when they go for counseling. The move to exempt doctors was simply a cynical ploy to disguise the absurdity of the gag rule...
...other words, it is not enough to dismiss the family-values issue as a political ploy in a tough Republican year...
Allen said Tuesday that Farrow had unfairly accused him of molesting his two youngest children. The accusation, Allen said, was a ploy Farrow was using to keep custody of them. Dershowitz said the recent disclosures have made it "very hard to negotiate...
...players dismiss the cries of poverty as a bargaining ploy. In many cases, they charge, the red ink is a figment of creative accounting. A study by baseball accounting expert Roger Noll, professor of economics at Stanford University, found that the Pirates earned a profit of $4 million in 1990 but turned it into an $8 million loss by taking one-time write-offs, such as the expenses to pay released players. Players also point out that salary increases are slowing. Average pay is up 25% this year, vs. 45% in 1991. Next year salaries are projected to inch...