Word: ploy
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Nonetheless, on the day following the Star's story, sentries began searching all trucks and vans at the camp's gates. Said a satisfied Coughlin of his ploy: "Apparently it worked...
...release-four years early-stunned SWAPO officials and diplomats in London and the United Nations. Toivo made it clear that he felt he had been freed as a blatant propaganda ploy by South Africa, which has been trying to prove to U.S. diplomats that it is making good-faith efforts to negotiate with the guerrillas. Whatever the motives, Toivo's release is the latest in a series of fast-moving events that promises to alter radically the diplomatic, political and military situation in Southern Africa, long troubled by the hostile relationships between white-ruled South Africa and its black...
...moment, these leaders are having trouble achieving a breakthrough, partly because of the uncompromising attitudes of Speaker O'Neill and President Reagan. O'Neill fears that the President's call for a "down payment" toward reducing the deficit is a ploy to force the Democrats into sharing election-year blame for the huge shortfall. Late last week, however, the Speaker declared for the first time that he would consider trimming cost of living increases in social benefits, if the President would give ground on the tax and defense issues...
High interest rates, though, helped derail the whole tactic. They drove bond prices down just when Drysdale was counting on them to go up. The ploy was exposed in May 1982, when Drysdale defaulted on $160 million in charges it owed Chase Manhattan. Ultimately the bank lost a total of $270 million in trading expenses and interest payments. During the summer of 1982 Drysdale's parent company went out of business, and Chase Manhattan took over the portfolio of Drysdale Government Securities...
PERHAPS THAT'S being a bit harsh. Perhaps these fines are a well-intentioned effort to maintain some control over student's personal lives after the in loco parentis advising structure of freshman year drops away. Perhaps, yes perhaps, it is a brilliant psychological ploy that fails only because it does not go far enough...