Word: ploy
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...details of Reston's rise within the Times, from his arrival as a raw reporter at age 29 to his takeover of the Washington bureau 15 years later, will intrigue any fan of bureaucratic politics. Stacks makes clear that Reston used every ploy of the classic man on the make. He sought and flattered professional patrons. He was useful and devoted to the Sulzberger family, which owned the Times--and to Katharine Graham, who kept trying to lure him to the Washington Post. He made pre-emptive strikes against in-house rivals. He lost only one major battle inside...
...investment banks smacks of opportunism and grandstanding, of a public official out of control. "This could have been handled more effectively away from the glare of the press," says a senior executive at one of the banks Spitzer has gone after. But if this is all a political ploy, a platform from which to run someday for, say, Governor of New York, it's certainly not in most politicians' playbooks to take on the moneymen who rank among the most powerful people in the U.S.--and whom he might need one day to help finance a campaign. Spitzer, a child...
...Oakland, California. This will come as welcome news to comix fans who may have been alarmed at the coda of his 2000 book, "Double Happiness," which explained that he had committed suicide in a mental institution. Shiga has since explained this Puckish bit of misinformation as a marketing ploy which backfired. I'm glad he's still around because his creations, though woefully hard to find, are some of the most fun comicbooks I've read in a long while...
That may be true, but it's mostly a negotiating ploy and not necessarily a reason for you to hold back on satellite. As long as you live in or near a city, it's more likely than not that you can already pick up local channels via satellite. DISH offers them to 60% of Americans; DirecTV does slightly better, at 67%. (As for your chances of picking up the satellite signal, that's more like 99%, unless you live in a canyon or in the shadows of skyscrapers...
...That may be true, but it's mostly a negotiating ploy and not necessarily a reason for you to hold back on satellite. As long as you live in or near a city, it's more likely than not that you can already pick up local channels via satellite. DISH offers them to 60% of Americans; DirecTV does slightly better, at 67%. (As for your chances of picking up the satellite signal, that's more like 99%, unless you live in a canyon or in the shadows of skyscrapers...