Word: ploy
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...Gore greeted the GOP's Manchurian ploy with all condign solemnity. He gravely pronounced himself "very disappointed" in George W. Bush. I suppose it would have been too much to expect Gore to greet the rat story with the snorting hilarity it deserved...
...must say I mistrust the moron ploy. I have been listening to it all my life. Dwight Eisenhower was a moron; Adlai Stevenson was so elegantly articulate, you know, and Eisenhower couldn't even complete a sentence grammatically. And Ronald Reagan, of course, was a complete imbecile. I don't compare W. to Ike or Reagan, who, unlike W., could laugh all the way to the electoral college. But that Manhattan dinner-party smugness - moron jokes as the coup de grace - gives me hives...
...Coalition co-founder, was the star of the show, cracking jokes from his wheelchair and positively embarrassng wife Dana, whom he called his "medicine" through six months of hard rehab after the accident that left him paralyzed. "I have a confession to make," he joked. "This was a cheap ploy to get you all here. I could use a directing gig right away!" After the laughter died down, he got serious, noting that his father had joined a labor union while in college and later became a hard-core Communist, making politics a big part of his upbringing...
Seemingly, some high schools have discovered a ploy to increase their yearly yield of Harvard acceptances...
...wonder the biotech industry sees golden rice as a powerful ally in its struggle to win public acceptance. No wonder its critics see it as a cynical ploy. And no wonder so many of those concerned about the twin evils of poverty and hunger look at golden rice and see reflected in it their own passionate conviction that genetically engineered crops can be made to serve the greater public good--that in fact such crops have a critical role to play in feeding a world that is about to add to its present population of 6 billion. As former President...