Word: ploy
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...real farmer guest-star at the Iowa debate. And his campaign decided that the best way to blunt Bradley's criticisms of him as an Establishment politician was to extend a hand to Bradley on national TV and challenge him to quit advertising and debate more instead. "A ploy," Bradley said disdainfully, and the pundits agreed. But at a time when television in Iowa and New Hampshire has become a wearying loop of campaign ads, polls and focus groups in those states showed that voters loved Gore's idea...
...Gore has proposed that he and Bradley cancel their 30-second ads and instead meet every week to engage in another "debate." When he hears that, Bill Bradley rolls his eyes and shakes his pelican chin, and calls it "a ploy...
...ploy. It's an idea so hideous that Gore cannot possibly be sincere in proposing it. Did you see Wednesday night's event in New Hampshire? Gore and Bradley have perfected their performance. They sound like a guy and his brother-in-law who are forced to get together at Thanksgiving and for some reason - old family history, or maybe it's that one of them beat out the other for president of the student council a long time ago - cannot refrain from whining at each other, just this side of nastiness, as they split hairs over health care...
...when Gates stepped down as Microsoft's CEO, saying he wanted to focus more on his family. And, because a chunk of the Gates Foundation grants go to wiring libraries in poor communities to use the Internet, some conspiracy theorists have gone as far as branding this as a ploy to introduce Microsoft products to a population that can't otherwise afford them...
...leave? Theories range from its being a ploy to improve the company's chances in antitrust court - maybe the feds will go easier if they see their nemesis fading into the background - to that he just wants to spend more time with the wife and kids. Gates says he simply wants to focus on developing software, because that's where he thinks the big bucks will be as the Internet moves beyond our PCs into everyday gadgets, from pens to coffee makers to car stereos. "At the end of the day you're thinking, thinking, thinking about how the different...