Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimate. And these aren't just cases of foreign spies left over from the cold war working for new capitalist bosses. Increasingly, U.S. firms are turning to Dumpster divers or computer hackers to stay ahead of the competition, and disgruntled workers are walking off with classified material. One worrisome ploy, the FBI says, is to send in spies posing as tech consultants on the Y2K computer...
...splitting its domestic tobacco division and Nabisco food group into two separate entities, the company will ostensibly create a new stock that could remain impervious to market reactions over future tobacco suits. This could invite legal challenges by those with smoking-related illnesses who see the breakup as a ploy to protect the assets of the food division in anticipation of settlements from such lawsuits. But TIME finance columnist Dan Kadlec says RJR's payout days are likely over and the spin-offs are just a long-overdue business move...
...mind that ploy and the nonstop obscenities faithfully transcribed in the name of realism, Street Kingdom can be a dramatic subway safari. Shuttling between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Century is an enthusiastic guide to polyglot and polychrome New York City. When outlaw and author first met nearly seven years ago at a lower Manhattan nightclub, K was trying to make it as a hip-hop lyricist and performer. He had the look (270 lbs. of muscular intimidation draped in clothing loose enough to conceal an arsenal) and a showman's instincts. In the book his stage name is American Dread, suggesting...
Many say the ploy was an effort to keepstaffing levels constant throughout the rest ofthe semester and to ensure that experienced DormCrew workers--now even more valuablecommodities--are content...
...combined defense arguments were compelling enough to trigger some quick shifting of strategy on both sides of the aisle. The clever Democratic ploy of enlisting West Virginia's Robert Byrd to offer a motion to dismiss "was a bombshell," as a Republican Senator put it. Any list of possible Democratic defectors always had Byrd's name at the top. "If Byrd is now offering a vote to dismiss, conviction really is dead...