Word: ploy
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That's what cell phones are for: Much of the hallway chatter in Okinawa was about the strange near-death and rebirth of the Camp David talks just hours before Clinton departed last Wednesday. Officials insist it was not a ploy. In fact, National Security Council spokesman P. J. Crowley left Thurmont after announcing the talks were done and started driving back to the White House in preparation for leaving for Japan. As he drove, knowing that Clinton would have to motorcade back because bad weather grounded the chopper, he kept looking in his rear-view mirror for the speeding...
...school kid knows to be wary of a bully offering candy in one hand while the other arm is folded behind his back. Take the bait and you're bound to get soaked, smudged, smeared or socked. The ploy is an old one, and Uncle Sam is gaming taxpayers with a version right now. Eliminating the estate tax, which the Senate will consider this week, is the sweet stuff. Levying additional tax on capital gains, a form of wealth the stock-owning masses have come into big time, is the punch...
...African Americans of their basic rights in his native Illinois, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled the return to their masters of those who had escaped to free soil in the North. But Bennett's main theme is that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was only "a ploy" designed to keep as many slaves in bondage as possible until Lincoln could build support for his plan for ending slavery: "colonization," a preposterous scheme to ship the black population either to Africa or South America. His fondest dream, Bennett writes, was of a "lily-white America without Native Americans...
...tried the geology ploy myself and managed to get the sort of miserable mark that George W. Bush and Al Gore, according to transcripts that were revealed during the primary campaign, got in many of their courses all through college. Now that I know my performance in geology was an indication of presidential potential rather than what my father said it was at the time, I feel a lot better about it. But I've had no similar reassurance when it comes to Beowulf. I think I'd better go out and buy the book...
...inflaming the situation may be precisely what Mugabe has in mind. Playing to the landless rural poor by encouraging land invasions has been widely interpreted as an election ploy to reverse the declining support of a president who has ruled Zimbabwe through its 20 years of independence. With parliamentary elections likely by May, Mugabe's support in urban areas is down to about 25 percent. But the fact that 70 percent of the country's best farmland is owned by some 4,000 white commercial farmers gives the issue some resonance with the country's impoverished rural majority...