Word: ploy
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University officials might see the recent call by Cambridge city councillors for a reassessment of the city’s losses due to Harvard’s tax exemptions as just an annoying political ploy. After all, nobody can force the University to renegotiate the thirteen-year-old payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement that was designed to govern the University’s voluntary payments to Cambridge until the year...
...Gerard begins to do sit-ups. This is an obvious ploy for a more prominent role in the story. Several of the participants, led by Arthur—whose mythical eating prowess seems, at least up to this point, to be nothing more than mythical—protest Gerard’s showmanship...
...miles beyond the snowy mountains that host their bunkers, aired a vehement denunciation of the Kurdish group's contact with the government. On the PUK's frontline, troops gathered around radios and listened to the diatribe accusing Komal of being infidels. The soldiers dismissed it as a ploy - a few hours later Ansar vehicles and gunmen had moved into Komal's area of control to improve their position for the nightly attack...
...fully fathomed by Schroder himself, the Chancellor moved from injury last summer, when he began to rail against U.S. "adventurism" and against war as an option, to insurrection this winter, when he threatened to vote against the U.S. in the U.N. Security Council. What began as a desperate ploy to save his sinking electoral campaign (it worked) has now escalated into barely masked antagonism toward the U.S. Schroder seems like a man on a mission: to stop the war together with the French, Russians and Chinese...
...more expensive for the U.S. to send than regular corn. If the farmers of Zambia grew it they would have to pay royalties every year to the companies that engineered the crop. At this point any self-respecting conspiracy theorist would be asking if this was a cynical ploy to get G.M. foods under the E.U.’s radar, and create a cash cow for the biotech business. And this is not an isolated incident either. Just this month, India refused a shipment of 1,000 tons of corn-soya mix when the U.S. again refused to guarantee...