Word: ploy
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...push that man out of power and we shall do it." Mugabe said that his guerrillas would fight anybody involved with Smith-regardless of the color of his skin and whether or not he wore a clerical collar. But even the "internal" and moderate black leaders resisted the Smith ploy. Muzorewa said ie was prepared to talk with Smith-but only if the negotiations were based on an immediate transition to black rule Muzorewa added that he did not expect to be taken up on his offer...
...trying to recruit jobless people who might one day become useful sources. Thousands of unemployed computer technicians, data analysts, engineers and journalists have been offered jobs in innocuous-sounding "research" firms that turned out to be East German intelligence-gathering fronts. Many of the job seekers patriotically report the ploy. In a classic counterintelligence maneuver, some of Mischa's supposed recruits may have been "turned" into double agents for Meier...
...volumes of business to his bank. Swiss investigators eventually discovered, Kuhrmeier did this by offering depositors 1) interest rates higher than those paid for Eurodollar accounts and 2) written assurances that Crédit Suisse guaranteed depositors' funds. In short, he exploited the advantages of the fiduciary account ploy without obeying its restrictions...
Some pet problems can be handled with the oldest of remedies: loving care and companionship. In many cases, Topeka Animal Dermatologist George Doering reported, dogs resort to tail-chewing as a ploy to get attention from a neglectful master. Doering's prescription: either devote more time to the pet or, if Rover is willing, bring in another dog as a playmate...
Jackson and other congressional admirers have been saving Rickover's programs-and Rickover-from the Pentagon ax since 1953. The Navy had devised a none too subtle ploy to force the crusty, cantankerous then captain into retirement by reducing him to working out of a converted ladies' room and twice passing him over for promotion. But many on Capitol Hill shared his dream of an all-nuclear fleet, no matter what the cost. At their insistence, the Navy moved him to better quarters and eventually promoted him to full admiral. Since 1965, when he reached retirement...