Word: ploy
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...fully fathomed by Schroder himself, the Chancellor moved from injury last summer, when he began to rail against U.S. "adventurism" and against war as an option, to insurrection this winter, when he threatened to vote against the U.S. in the U.N. Security Council. What began as a desperate ploy to save his sinking electoral campaign (it worked) has now escalated into barely masked antagonism toward the U.S. Schroder seems like a man on a mission: to stop the war together with the French, Russians and Chinese...
...more expensive for the U.S. to send than regular corn. If the farmers of Zambia grew it they would have to pay royalties every year to the companies that engineered the crop. At this point any self-respecting conspiracy theorist would be asking if this was a cynical ploy to get G.M. foods under the E.U.’s radar, and create a cash cow for the biotech business. And this is not an isolated incident either. Just this month, India refused a shipment of 1,000 tons of corn-soya mix when the U.S. again refused to guarantee...
...terror schemes inside the U.S., the FBI is expected to dust off a few tricks developed during the Cold War to "bumper-lock" - confuse and immobilize - the KGB. A favorite: waves of double-agents, called "cold walk-ins," approach enemy agents and "volunteer" for nasty missions. If the ploy works, the FBI has achieved a penetration. Sooner or later the walk-ins are revealed as plants. IF they're burned a few times, so the theory goes, the Iraqis will suspect and reject even bonafide volunteers from al-Qaeda...
...their desolation with such intensity that they seem to have trained on maotai liquor instead of boiled noodles. There is no sign of Okafor. If his name was floated merely to warn the Americans?"killing the chicken to scare the monkey," in the words of a Chinese proverb?the ploy has worked, at least for one night...
...Union address. Bush, hoping to avoid the presidential shortfalls of his father, digressed from his seemingly constant rhetoric on a potential war in Iraq to briefly discuss the pivotal state of the domestic economy. Unfortunately, his plan to fix the struggling economy is overly simplistic and a thinly veiled ploy at satisfying his rich political base. And while Bush did promise funding for some praiseworthy and innovative programs that Democrats will be happy to support, these programs only served to distract eyes and minds away from his hawkish and conservative political agenda...