Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future. Already executives from companies like Chevron and Amoco have found themselves in two- day creativity seminars, working on problems like how to raise two candles to eye level in a dark room using only string and paper clips. Only Deliverance might be adequate preparation for one problem-solving ploy practiced at the Gannett-owned News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla. Employees find themselves out at sea in a 25-ft. boat, often with only one experienced sailor on board. Says Madelyn Jennings, a Gannett senior vice president: "Some need to lead. Some need to follow. But they all need...
...other cities, panicky shoppers stripped stores of what little remained on the shelves. Miners in the Donbass region who struck for three weeks last summer said they would protest the impending price rises and call for a nationwide strike next month. While Gorbachev's critics were puzzling over that ploy, he made a tantalizing new offer to the Lithuanians: their own state in two to three years if they "freeze" their unilateral declaration of independence. Then, when he met with French President Francois Mitterrand for a tour of the horizon, Gorbachev reiterated his insistence that ending the cold war means...
...Ploy number two is to target foreign (especially Third World) markets, where citizens are less aware of smoking's dangers. Even as the U.S. government condemns South American coca producers who export their drug to the U.S., American tobacco companies are selling their drug in locales such as China and the Philipines at record rates...
...third and perhaps craftiest ploy of the tobacco industry has been to embrace the Constitution. Philip Morris has sponsored a high-profile media campaign to heap praise on the Bill of Rights. Send away to Philip Morris and they'll be glad to mail you a copy of the document that guarantees our precious democratic liberties...
...invoke forfeiture if you make a plea bargain," observes Miami lawyer Joel Hirschhorn. "But the minute you plead not guilty, they threaten you with going after the fee." Noriega's lawyers argue that the freezing of his assets may be part of just such a plea- bargaining ploy. They say it is preposterous for prosecutors to claim that Noriega's money came only from drugs...