Word: ploy
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...more remarkable since his political instincts have often failed him. He launched a virulently nationalist appeal prior to the first general elections for the European Parliament in 1979 that ended in fiasco for his center-right party. In 1997, he chose to hold early elections, but the ploy boomeranged when the Socialists emerged as victors. But thanks to his prodigious vitality, shrewd maneuvering and quick mind, Chirac always managed to recover from even his worst blunders. Not this time. Now, both his talents and his luck have run out. The "minor cerebrovascular accident" he suffered several months...
...normal lives under proper care.We also have to face the reality that many of our most desperately ill citizens have no chance of entering normal society again. But allowing them to “choose” to wither away on the streets seems more like a cruel Darwinian ploy than a valid social policy for dealing with those who have no hope.Prior to the massive deinstitutionalization undertaken in the 1980s, the U.S. government acknowledged that it was our responsibility to ensure that mentally ill people received minimal assistance. But despite the surge in homelessness that followed the shift away...
...Bush opposed a Department of Homeland Security, then supported it as a campaign ploy-and then allowed it to be slapped together carelessly, diminishing the effectiveness of the agencies involved...
...situation in Iraq; it was created to market the war and to smear the President's opponents. Rove and Libby were at the heart of this group. Their decision to ask Congress for a war resolution in September 2002, two months before the congressional elections, seemed an obvious marketing ploy. Rove told Republicans that they could "go to the country with this issue," that it would reinforce the party's image as strong on defense. The simultaneous decision to take the Iraq situation to the United Nations was also a campaign ploy-polls showed the vast majority of voters favored...
...Catherine P. Walleck ’06, and Elizabeth A. McLeod ’08—who each play Lulu in her different stages of maturity—do a particularly good job of portraying this ambiguity of character. This multiple-actress-to-play-a-single-character ploy allows for a greater look at Lulu’s ambiguity, and audiences can never quite settle into a complete understanding of the character because portrayals of her vary so often...