Word: ployes
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...latest sign of his staunch independence of the White House. Time and again he has refused to bow to Administration complaints that the Federal Reserve should ease monetary policy and reduce interest rates. Some political experts think the World Bank offer was a White House ploy to move Volcker aside before the 1986 congressional elections, but the chairman's turndown is a strong indication that he intends to head the Federal Reserve until his term ends...
Surprisingly, the U.S. ploy worked. When the Achille Lauro tried to enter Syrian waters near Tartus, the Syrians turned it away. Cyprus also refused to allow the ship into port. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "Everyone had been sensitized. It wasn't so much a matter of U.S. pressure as the fact that no one wanted these pirates on their hands." The Achille Lauro had little choice but to turn back toward Egypt's Port Said...
...claim of self-defense may just have been a ploy used by Israel to mask other intentions, suggested Haggard. Even if Israel didn't know for sure that the PLO committed the slayings, it may have wished to send, not only to the PLO but to the whole Arab world, a threatening message "we will strike back in any situation...
...suspense until its Sept. 29 premiere, leaving both critics and viewers to wonder whether its giant-size ambitions will enhance, or merely overwhelm, the small screen. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which will follow Spielberg's show on Sunday nights, will consist largely of remakes of old Hitchcock episodes. That ploy worked surprisingly well in a TV movie last spring that spawned the series, but it could grow tiresome as the nostalgia wears...
...have been adroit. Over the Easter weekend, Gorbachev proposed that the Soviet Union and the U.S. immediately stop deployment of intermediate- range nuclear weapons in Europe. The ploy was too transparent to work. The Soviets had essentially completed their missile buildup, and the U.S. was in the midst of countervailing emplacements; a freeze would have left the U.S.S.R. with a huge lead in warheads. Even the Dutch government, which earlier had waffled on accepting American missiles, turned down the idea...