Word: ploy
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...splitting its domestic tobacco division and Nabisco food group into two separate entities, the company will ostensibly create a new stock that could remain impervious to market reactions over future tobacco suits. This could invite legal challenges by those with smoking-related illnesses who see the breakup as a ploy to protect the assets of the food division in anticipation of settlements from such lawsuits. But TIME finance columnist Dan Kadlec says RJR's payout days are likely over and the spin-offs are just a long-overdue business move...
...mind that ploy and the nonstop obscenities faithfully transcribed in the name of realism, Street Kingdom can be a dramatic subway safari. Shuttling between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Century is an enthusiastic guide to polyglot and polychrome New York City. When outlaw and author first met nearly seven years ago at a lower Manhattan nightclub, K was trying to make it as a hip-hop lyricist and performer. He had the look (270 lbs. of muscular intimidation draped in clothing loose enough to conceal an arsenal) and a showman's instincts. In the book his stage name is American Dread, suggesting...
Many say the ploy was an effort to keepstaffing levels constant throughout the rest ofthe semester and to ensure that experienced DormCrew workers--now even more valuablecommodities--are content...
...remained intact, with a kind of wicked integrity all his own. One reason he can conduct Middle East peace talks in the morning and legal-strategy sessions at night, spray proposals on everything from digital mug shots to national parks, is that all the wild gestures and every last ploy work to the same goal--his survival, his popularity, his eternally orbiting polls...
...combined defense arguments were compelling enough to trigger some quick shifting of strategy on both sides of the aisle. The clever Democratic ploy of enlisting West Virginia's Robert Byrd to offer a motion to dismiss "was a bombshell," as a Republican Senator put it. Any list of possible Democratic defectors always had Byrd's name at the top. "If Byrd is now offering a vote to dismiss, conviction really is dead...