Word: ploy
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...free the 52 American hostages. Christopher picked up the phone that connected him directly to the White House. Using his code name, "Superman," he was immediately put through to the President, and, in comparing notes on the latest impasse in the bargaining, the two men came up with a ploy. When he hung up the receiver, Christopher ordered his State Department plane readied for takeoff at noon, Washington time, the next day, when the Carter Administration's term would...
...draft registration began six months ago, there were plenty of reasons to oppose it, reasons that have not disappeared. Registration remains militarily foolish--estimates are it will trim by but a few days the time it takes to induct Americans into the armed forces. And registration remains a political ploy--originally adopted to aid the flagging reelection campaign of President Carter, it also served as a part of that chief executive's dangerously confrontational revival of the cold war. And President-elect Ronald Reagan, who found it expedient to oppose registration during the campaign, seems likely to maintain...
When Dolan goes after Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Donald Riegle of Michigan, and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio in 1982, he will once again trundle out his Panama Canal Treaty posters, as he did this year in "targeting" Frank Church of Idaho. The young strategist defends his ploy: "That vote was a symbol of surrender, a recognition that American is not the number-one power in the world. American voters don't want to hear that. They reject that...
...Government banned the use of poison traps eight years ago, Wyoming Wool Grower John Lye began losing about 10% of his sheep to coyotes. When he tried shooting them, they started attacking at night. Says Lye: "They have an uncanny instinct for trouble." Then he hit upon an exotic ploy. Lye got three llamas, those feisty beasts with keen eyesight, fearsome spit, a mean kick-and a passable resemblance to sheep. At first the coyotes were buffaloed. Every time they came down for a hit the llamas would spit, then stomp and slash with their front hooves. "For two weeks...
...Physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen of Duke University and Israeli Zoologist Amiram Shkolnik have explained another dromedary ploy: its ability to exhale far less water than even other desert animals. For 16 days the scientists kept two camels standing in peak temperatures of 40° C (104° F) without water at an Israeli kibbutz near the Dead Sea. After about ten days the camels' nightly exhalations became dryer, showing that they were saving water...