Word: ploy
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...than passing intact a package that bore a Reagan Administration label. But House Republicans brought up the whole package as a rider to the continuing resolution, even though no committee hearings had ever been held on some of the provisions. Their motive was primarily to embarrass the Democrats. The ploy worked: the pack age sailed easily through both House and Senate...
Washington reacted by accusing the Sandinistas of attempting a devious propaganda ploy. The draft treaty is "full of loopholes," declared a senior U.S. diplomat. Other officials claimed that the Sandinistas were using an incomplete document-which is, for example, unfinished on the subject of the verification of arms inventories-to convince increasingly skeptical friends and neighbors of their democratic and peaceful intentions. The U.S. reaction produced exasperation in Managua. Said a senior official of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry: "It sometimes seems as if, short of committing collective suicide, there is nothing Nicaragua can do to please the United States...
Perhaps what hurt the Crimson most was the Northeastern ploy of shadowing Harvard's high-scoring Mainelli as well as Harvard's always powerful Taylor. "They marked our tough players," Mabrey lamented...
...memories, for the great moments, for being what you are, genuine heroes."Unable to resist mentioning his own ongoing race, he lost the audience momentarily. Since the 1980 boycott, athletes have become sensitive on one subject. "I just don't like the Olympics to be a ploy for political things of any kind," said Pam McGee of the gold-medal women's basketball team, who brought along her twin sister Paula...
...Alfonse D'Amato that would rename the site of the Soviet embassy in Washington Andrei Sakharov Plaza. While attempts to keep pressure on the Soviets to free the ailing dissident from confinement are laudable, even the State Department saw this one as a dubious and ill-conceived political ploy. State Department Spokesman Joseph Reap said the measure, which seems to have broad congressional support, might violate international agreements on protecting the dignity of foreign missions, lead to Soviet retaliation and prove counterproductive in freeing Sakharov. Said a disgusted U.S. diplomat of Congress: "Somebody ought to go up there...