Word: ploy
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...Peres called Begin's ploy "arrogance," while others termed it "pure politics." Begin's government, said Peres, was one "that bends national affairs to suit party aims...
...Minister Saadoun Hammadi has demanded that the council order Israel to open its own atomic facilities for inspection and subject them to the safeguard system of the IAEA. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, on the other hand, has proposed making the Middle East a nuclear-free zone?a ploy that would require Arab states to recognize Israel as an equal partner...
...Bank Attorney Joseph H. Peck Jr. reluctantly confirmed, Wiggins' ploy was to sell bogus bankers' acceptances to unwitting buyers in New York. He was able to do this undetected because, in his capacity as head of international operations at Allied, he had authority to sell acceptances on behalf of the bank itself...
...resorts to a disguise kit designed for him by Hollywood Makeup Expert Mike Westmore. Says Uston: "I have been a British aristocrat and I have been a cowboy. I have false teeth, false noses and many wigs. With each disguise I use the appropriate accent. But the best ploy is to impersonate a sucker who is there to be milked...
Indifference is an impressive but somewhat risky ploy. Rarely do public figures command the easy Gallic disdain of French President Valéry Discard d'Estaing. When Le Canard Enchaîné reported that Giscard had accepted $250,000 worth of diamonds as gifts from the Central African Republic's butcherous Emperor Bokassa, Giscard's reaction was roughly, "So what?" Of course, the French have a tradition of Non, je ne regrette rien. Across the channel, the Duke of Wellington once displayed something of that spirit when an old mistress (a Frenchwoman) threatened to publish...