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...automakers are jostling one another like the last four cars in a demolition derby. The bumping and grinding began Aug. 15, when General Motors offered customers the rockbottom financing rate of 7.7%. The dramatic GM ploy surprised Ford, Chrysler and American Motors, which last week slashed their financing rates. Ford matched GM's 7.7%, and Chrysler and AMC went even lower, to 7.5%. Compared with conventional car loans, which carry rates as high as 13%, the automakers' deals strike customers as a steal. At Village Ford in Dearborn, Mich., showroom traffic increased 50% last week. "When they come...
...only people it wasn't clear to are people in the immediate vicinity of the Harvard Square MBTA stop," he said, referring to the form of the editorial Kenney said it was obvious that the style was a ploy to increase interest in the editorial and not an immitation or a reproduction of a real memo...
...vacation sting was part of an eleven-week Florida roundup in which the marshals and local police forces successfully tracked down 3,816 fugitives. Although most of the arrests resulted from more conventional police tactics, the Puno ploy and similar lures helped to collar violent criminals without anyone being injured. "Scams usually work very well with this type of fugitive," said U.S. Marshal Jerry Bullock, "because their entire lives are devoted to getting something for nothing...
...Kremlin's newfound desire to forbid research is almost surely a cynical bargaining ploy that the U.S.S.R. will abandon if the negotiations in Geneva ever turn serious. Privately, some Soviet officials are already hinting that , their side might settle for a moratorium on the testing and deployment of new defensive technologies, or perhaps an updated version of the 1972 ABM treaty that would set new limits on permissible levels of defense. Those are among the alternatives advocated by the more reasonable American critics of Star Wars, as long as the moratorium or updated ABM treaty is accompanied by significant reductions...
...bring export standards into line with the full-scope safeguard concept. That may take time and tact. Says former I.A.E.A. Official Fischer: "There is still suspicion in Western Europe of U.S. motives in pressing for full-scope safeguards." Pressure from Washington is sometimes seen by Europeans as a ploy to improve the U.S. competitive position. Nonetheless, Fischer notes, there has been a "very distinct change" in French export practices over the past decade. U.S. pressure has played a role in that...