Word: ploy
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...should join the ranks of countries that recognize the genocide of 1915, why at this moment? We should have passed this resolution decades ago, so why not wait a while longer to avoid compromising our soldiers in the field? Or is the timing of this resolution just another ploy to further embarrass our President? Randall Schwalbe, Hawthorne, Calif...
...should join the ranks of countries that recognize the genocide of 1915, why at this moment? We should have passed this resolution decades ago, so why not wait a while longer to avoid compromising our soldiers in the field? Or is the timing of this resolution just another ploy to further embarrass our President? Randall Schwalbe, HAWTHORNE, CALIF...
...contemporary art from the region. Exacerbating the trend is a dearth of quality modern-art museums in India, China and Vietnam. In August, the central Chinese city of Dujiangyan announced it was lavishing some of the nation's top contemporary artists with their very own museums, but the ploy likely won't draw more than the occasional tourist to this remote part of the country. That leaves Western institutions like New York City's MOMA or London's Tate Modern to cherry-pick the best Asian works. "Most of the Vietnamese old masters' works are in foreign countries now," says...
...other is that they don't want to hurt Mitch's feelings. The real reason is: they're in a movie, and there wouldn't be one if the characters didn't do implausible things. Hence the creakiest gimmick in all of fiction, the HIBK (Had I But Known) ploy. It worked in Oedipus Rex, but in the intervening 2,500 years the trope has got a bit stale. Here it's applied so that the movie can be 98 mins. instead...
...They will have to be wooed, of course. Kuhn wisely suggests a ploy similar to John Kennedy's in 1960: Make the argument that we're weaker because of the Republicans...