Word: ploy
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...African Americans of their basic rights in his native Illinois, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled the return to their masters of those who had escaped to free soil in the North. But Bennett's main theme is that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was only "a ploy" designed to keep as many slaves in bondage as possible until Lincoln could build support for his plan for ending slavery: "colonization," a preposterous scheme to ship the black population either to Africa or South America. His fondest dream, Bennett writes, was of a "lily-white America without Native Americans...
...tried the geology ploy myself and managed to get the sort of miserable mark that George W. Bush and Al Gore, according to transcripts that were revealed during the primary campaign, got in many of their courses all through college. Now that I know my performance in geology was an indication of presidential potential rather than what my father said it was at the time, I feel a lot better about it. But I've had no similar reassurance when it comes to Beowulf. I think I'd better go out and buy the book...
...inflaming the situation may be precisely what Mugabe has in mind. Playing to the landless rural poor by encouraging land invasions has been widely interpreted as an election ploy to reverse the declining support of a president who has ruled Zimbabwe through its 20 years of independence. With parliamentary elections likely by May, Mugabe's support in urban areas is down to about 25 percent. But the fact that 70 percent of the country's best farmland is owned by some 4,000 white commercial farmers gives the issue some resonance with the country's impoverished rural majority...
Democrats have long derided the investigation as a Republican ploy to destroy a popular Democratic president, but, as TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan notes, "this independent counsel position has taken a life of its own. It's not beholden to either party, and it stands to hurt both of them." In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, Ray said that he's bolstered his prosecutorial staff in recent weeks and will pursue charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in the Monica Lewinsky case as well as charges surrounding the coercion of Kathleen Willey. The following...
...Chronicle. Those plans were put on hold Thursday when a U.S. district court judge halted the move based on a petition by local political gadfly Clint Reilly, who argued that the subsidized transfer of ownership to Ted Fang, the proprietor of a group of local newspapers, was a ploy to doom the Examiner and leave the Bay Area with only one daily newspaper. The ruling, which many believe Hearst will appeal, has touched off a debate among media analysts about the Newspaper Preservation Act, a law passed in 1970 with the aim of preventing newspaper monopolies in America's cities...