Word: ploy
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...summer, I wait by the side of the road for a bus back to La Paz Centro from Managua. As a van full of U.S. Marines drive by, they slow and salute their fellow American (me!) through the windows. I glow for weeks, despite the Marines’ clear ploy for female attention...
...Roman Empire’s wild orgies. A party with an orgy theme is a welcome addition to the Harvard social scene. Unfortunately, the Mather HoCo advertisements for Decadenza tainted the event by including the slogan “Freshman Girls Free” as a marketing ploy and advertising tactic...
...It’s a marketing ploy, but it was designed to get both genders to come,” he said. “It wasn’t designed, as some said, to bait freshman girls into entering a ‘predatory lair’. I sincerely believe people at Harvard are more intelligent than to believe that...
Washington needed support from Arab and Muslim leaders in its war in Afghanistan, President Bush trumpeted what the rest of the world had acknowledged for years: the Palestinians need a state of their own. Whether the gesture was made in good faith or whether it was purely a strategic ploy, the Arabs bought it, and most Arab nations supported the war in Afghanistan...
While Ruiz's comments about gays' lobbying about the case were dismissed by many activists as a desperate, last-gasp ploy, there is no question that the homosexual community has been deeply affected by the case. Smith is suing Noel, Knoller and their apartment-building owner in civil court, marking the first time in the U.S. that a same-sex partner has won the right to pursue a wrongful death claim over his or her mate. "The California statute was amended to expressly say domestic partners can sue, and that was, in part, due to Sharon Smith's testimony before...