Word: ploy
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...book has come under fire from some for its title, which some critics claim was a marketing ploy. It has received national attention and was featured as the subject of a classroom discussion on an episode of the Fox television drama “Boston Public...
...with him or not. "It declares to his old friends that he's turned colors and come over to our side," says one. "That means he's toast, and he knows it. He doesn't have any friends back home, so he might as well make some here." The ploy may or may not work, but it seems that the Gitmo interrogations, at least, are bearing fruit...
...teenaged Moynihan devised a ploy in which his younger and smaller brother, Mike, would go into Manhattan pubs trying to sell newspapers...
...officials portrayed the warnings as a rational response to perceived threats, the alert bonanza was too confounding to be dutifully accepted at face value. Democratic strategists questioned the timing, since the new threats had conveniently deflected attention from criticism about pre-9/11 intelligence failures. Were the warnings a ploy to unite the nation behind the White House? If not, then where was the anxiety coming from? And if the risks had truly escalated, why was the country still bathing in the glow of a "yellow" security alert--the midpoint of the five-level system established in March...
...When Inoue, the Philippine bank's erstwhile president, met him in Manila in 1998, Ogami came across as a boyishly enthusiastic entrepreneur who laughed about the persona he played. "He didn't believe the stuff about being a messiah or anything," says Inoue. "It was all just a marketing ploy...