Word: ploy
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...bold and risky ploy. Bryan apparently assumed that Borman would resign rather than agree to sell Eastern. Borman, for his part, calculated that the labor leader would never allow a takeover by Lorenzo. Reason: Lorenzo had enraged virtually every card-carrying union member in 1983, when his Continental Airlines filed for bankruptcy and abrogated the airline's union contracts. Lorenzo laid off the firm's 12,000 employees and offered them their jobs back at about half salary...
...trial, where 22 defendants are charged with distributing Sicilian heroin through a chain of U.S. pizza outlets. Both are expected to make court appearances in Sicily in the spring, though Contorno gave prosecutors a scare last week by suddenly threatening not to. Officials see Contorno's move as a ploy to get better treatment and more security. Nonetheless, they are visibly concerned. Contorno's statements helped indict 160 defendants...
...charlatanry aimed at emphasizing South Africa's solidarity with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners of conscience of his own." Other observers speculated that while Angola might be interested in a prisoner swap...
...state wants Americans to get involved. Itwants reform to come slow," Naidu says. OtherBlack activists argue that these non-racialschools are part of this slow reform which, theysay, is really only a government approved,public-relations ploy...
Maybe the intership program need not be totally scrapped. But to rush along the existing internships to aid the privileged establishment in South Africa under the false label of reform is at best a cynical ploy against student activists and at worst another brick in the wall of the apartheid state...