Word: ploy
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...bring its throw weight down to the U.S. level. Haig rebutted Weinberger. Slamming down his fist and fixing his steeliest gaze on Reagan, Haig warned that the Pentagon's option would be dismissed not just by the Soviets but by the U.S.'s allies as a cynical ploy, and that the result would be "a military and political catastrophe." How the President resolved the dispute, said Haig, would be "the most important decision of your Administration." Rostow sided with Weinberger and delivered a lengthy, withering indictment of Haig, accusing him of timidity and of favoring an approach...
...York thugs," said Greg Kieselmann, co-manager of institutional research at Morgan, Olmstead, Kennedy & Gardner, a Los Angeles brokerage firm. That rather vivid imagery was typical of the investment world's reaction last week after Financier Saul P. Steinberg zapped Walt Disney Productions with a market ploy that made him $32 million richer but may have left Disney much weaker. Steinberg, 44, had just pulled off the latest example of a spreading tactic called greenmail, Wall Street's version of blackmail...
Reagan's advisers are confident not only that Moscow's ploy will fail and the President will be reelected, but that once the Soviets are faced with the reality of another four years of this Administration, they will swallow their pride, along with their words, and get back to the business of trade, diplomacy and arms control...
...cynic might view this recent phenomenon as a propaganda ploy by members of the self-important Baby Boom generation. They were the coolest generation while they were under 30, and they intend to remain the coolest now that they are approaching middle...
...President George Bush, acting in his role of G.O.P. stalking horse for '84, was quick to condemn not only Farrakhan and Jackson but Mondale and Hart, neither of whom made much of an issue of the ethnic slurs in order to avoid offending black voters. Bush's ploy was "a great political stroke," admitted a Mondale aide. "It was simple, crude and effective...