Word: ployes
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...film's failure to transcend conventional stereotype is as cumbersome as its reliance on stock gags and "cute" statements. Director Jordan's idea of humor--falling brooms and burning toast--is admittedly a sign of domestic chaos, but certainly an insufficient ploy to keep the audience in hysterics. Similarly, Wheaton's gratuitous use of slang phrases like "shit" and "knocked up" quickly becomes sophomoric and intellectually insulting to the audience...
Auto companies are using a scaled-down version of the bankruptcy ploy on individual plants. When Ford Motor Co failed to extract concessions from the U.A.W. at its unprofitable Rouge steelmaking operations, it announced plans to curtail production sharply. Four days later, the union accepted concessions, and the mill was kept open. When U.A.W. workers at Ford's Sheffield, Ala., aluminum-casting plant did not accept 50% wage and benefit cuts or the company's offer to sell them the plant, it was closed last June...
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...first hint of a new Soviet proposal came in mid-November 1982, when Senator Gary Hart visited Geneva and lunched with Nitze and Kvitsinsky together. Using Hart as a foil, Nitze elicited from Kvitsinsky confirmation of what Nitze had suspected would be the next Soviet ploy: an offer to reduce European SS-20s from 243 to about 150, approximately matching the 162 ballistic missiles in Britain's and France's independent nuclear arsenals...
...text of remarks that Reagan would make during a public appearance with Thatcher. Eagleburger, a career diplomat and former aide to Henry Kissinger, was, like Haig, concerned with reassuring the Europeans that the new Administration felt bound to preserve a certain amount of continuity in U.S. policy. The ploy worked. Now the President had committed his Administration to following both tracks, deployment and negotiation...