Word: ploy
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...case of diminishing returns. Rather it is a test of HFAI’s true motivations—a moral imperative. If the initiative runs out of political steam and endowment cash just as it becomes more difficult and more expensive, then HFAI will appear to be a ploy to burnish Harvard’s image, not the genuine attempt it is to equalize the financial playing field of higher education...
...difficult if not impossible for them to separate their most deeply held convictions into “religious” and “non-religious” components.Still, the media and common Hillary-haters could not help but characterize her statements as anything but a naked election-grabbing ploy. But it seems unfair to question the sincerity of a former Sunday school teacher who attends church more regularly than President Bush. Rather, Clinton should be applauded for adding a compassionate Christian voice to a debate dominated by the religious right’s divisive agenda.Loui Itoh...
...soliciting writers through ads posted around campus and such unlikely places as the Advocate e-mail list. It seems that there’s no real rivalry between the Gamut and The Advocate, despite the similarities of their content. When asked if the chapbook was a ploy to steal from the Advocate’s readership, Alexander J. Rothman ’07 of The Gamut offered an emphatic “No.” He said that at Harvard, “There’s enough good poetry being written to keep both magazines happy...
...Critics suggest Chavez?s oil diplomacy is simply a ploy to take consumers? minds off of record high oil prices, which are partly a result of his efforts to rebuild the power of OPEC, of which Venezuela is a founding member. Alvarez insists crude prices in the 1990s were "unfairly low" for producers like Venezuela - but says the Citgo program does give Chavez a chance to showcase "one of our revolution?s most important principles: the redistribution of oil revenues, especially for the poor." He adds it also reflects "the kind of cooperation mechanism we?re using with our neighbor...
...marshals are trained to deal with abnormal behavior. But the airline crew did not know about Alpizar's condition, and Denis Breslin, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, suggests that Buechner's cries about her husband's illness could have been a ploy to distract the air marshals. "They are trained to make a split-second decision. They don't have time to second-guess," says Representative John Mica of Florida, who chairs the House subcommittee on aviation. "I think they acted absolutely appropriately...