Word: ploy
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...deepening recession and the President's inability to articulate a thoughtful, coherent economic policy is forcing the President, who refuses to bend of compromise, into a corner of isolation. As the White House's promises become mere verbiage. Reagan's Medical changes seem little more than a wishful ploy with evanescent political usefulness...
...peace ploy-and contempt
...incumbents from office. Reagan, however, escaped blame; by then, he had left office and was off and running for the White House. This time, we hope he is not so lucky. Congress should reject his New Federalism and expose it for what it really is: the President's latest ploy to escape responsibility for the virtual war he has declared on America's needy...
...warn of the risks and difficulties of reacting so forcefully. Haig's reaction was visceral. Rather than take Kissinger's critique as an intellectual challenge to Administration policy, which it was, the Secretary of State told aides that he saw it as a power grab-a ploy by Kissinger to get his old job back...
...offer to send agents to Iran to strengthen Tehran's intelligence and security forces, as well as bolster the Islamic Guard, the I.R.P.'s military arm. Another Soviet team was dispatched to assist in rebuilding the country's devastated economy. Now the Soviets, in their boldest ploy to date, are pressing Iran to sign a mutual cooperation pact that would effectively draw Khomeini's revolutionary government into Moscow's sphere of influence...