Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bombing on two Libyans, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. The scenario prompted President Bush to remark, "The Syrians took a bum rap on this." It also triggered an outcry from the victims' families, who claimed that pointing the finger at Libya was a political ploy designed to reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times it was "outrageous" to pin the whole thing on Libyan leader...
Bush's tactic is to "kick sand in the public's eye," as a New York Times staff editorial charged. It is a simple ploy to gain more votes, not the beginning of a program to help women protect their right to an abortion...
Management refused the ploy. It simply hired scabs and plodded on. Unable to control them, the international union eventually abandoned the strikers. Most of them lost their jobs, and some -- weeping -- turned scab. The movie has much to say about the limits of hyped confrontation as a means of settling issues. But the true power of American Dream lies elsewhere. It derives from the access Kopple gained to the union's inner circles and the lives of its leaders, their rank-and-file followers and opponents. We watch horrified as these good people -- embracing passions they cannot control -- rush toward...
...pages of Tiffany Designs Stained Glass Coloring Book are copies of actual stained glass windows. The unlucky owners of this book are supposed to look at the examples in the front, "reproduced in full color," the book's back cover exclaims. This is a ploy to get kids into a career in architecture or design good and early; a ploy to get them to instantly recognize windows from such landmarks as the Reformed Church in Flushing...
...assault by Kerrey violated earlier promises to let the issue lie. But his camp thought it had to shake the chessboard. Kerrey has virtually no chance of winning Georgia or any of the large states up for grabs next week, including Texas and Florida. So his ploy is to drive down Clinton's numbers while pursuing a "delegate accrual" strategy -- targeting specific districts in the hope of picking up small blocs of delegates in many states. He also looks west, striving for a base that will keep him in the contest until the final primaries in June. When Kerrey...