Word: ploy
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...teenaged Moynihan devised a ploy in which his younger and smaller brother, Mike, would go into Manhattan pubs trying to sell newspapers...
...officials portrayed the warnings as a rational response to perceived threats, the alert bonanza was too confounding to be dutifully accepted at face value. Democratic strategists questioned the timing, since the new threats had conveniently deflected attention from criticism about pre-9/11 intelligence failures. Were the warnings a ploy to unite the nation behind the White House? If not, then where was the anxiety coming from? And if the risks had truly escalated, why was the country still bathing in the glow of a "yellow" security alert--the midpoint of the five-level system established in March...
...When Inoue, the Philippine bank's erstwhile president, met him in Manila in 1998, Ogami came across as a boyishly enthusiastic entrepreneur who laughed about the persona he played. "He didn't believe the stuff about being a messiah or anything," says Inoue. "It was all just a marketing ploy...
...CALIF.) His office ordered all state agencies to display the Governor's photo on their websites. One click and surfers are directed to Davis' home page, which offers biographies with personal photos, speeches and a link to the home page of his wife. Critics say it's a campaign ploy...
...possibly could have done this. I was in the bottom of a bottle, looking around and imagining what happened, and placed myself in the spot." As it would turn out, however, the very memory of that confession had been suggested by the police to his ex-wife as a ploy to get what they hoped would be a true confession...