Word: ploy
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...jittery European and Arab allies pounced on that glimmer of hope, it is clear they are once again being misled—and that, as both Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have said, they are being fooled by a Hussein “ploy.” Following Bush’s speech, world opinion had slowly begun turning back in America's favor, to the point where Saudi Arabia had said that we could use their bases to launch military attacks and several European nations had voiced their support for future military intervention. Following...
...Bush administration has dismissed Saddam's offer as a ploy designed to avoid a military strike rather than a signal of penitence and resolve to become a global citizen in good standing. Saddam's track record certainly supports Washington's skepticism, but most of the Europeans and the Arabs fear the consequences of a U.S.-Iraq more than they fear Saddam's regime, and they'll insist on taking Iraq's offer as an opportunity to address Iraq's weapons programs through renewed inspections. After all, they don't share the U.S. policy of regime-change, and appear to ready...
...they may be?indeed, East Timor is now officially the poorest country in Asia?most seem to have generosity in their genes. Boys scamper up palm trees to collect coconuts and offer them gratis to parched visitors traveling along the trail. Then again, it may be a clever sales ploy: once stopped it's not long before you're offered a liter bottle of fermented palm wine for a dollar, with a kick to match that of the sturdy Timorese ponies that transport old men to market...
...gunmen and lent them one of his own pistols to use in the attack. (Those two were convicted of murder last February and are serving life sentences.) Tommy will likely appeal the ruling; some fear that his absence from the courtroom last week was a ploy by his lawyers to manufacture grounds for an appeal. And the sentence handed down is considerably softer than the life terms being served by his henchmen. "According to any legal logic," says Frans Hendra Winata, a Jakarta-based legal expert, "the mastermind behind the killing has to get a heavier verdict than the executioners...
...about the I.R.A.'s true aims has led British Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning for the I.R.A. and other armed groups this week. O'Neill's apology was a clever way of heading off some of that pressure, and some saw it as just a P.R. ploy. "I am very skeptical and cynical," said Jim Dixon, who was severely wounded in a bombing in 1987 that killed 11 people. Others think it is more than a stunt. Tom Donnelly, whose sister died in a bombing 30 years ago, welcomed the expression of regret because he thinks...