Word: ployes
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...economy. Confronted with widespread discontent over Israel's triple-digit inflation during his re-election campaign last year, Begin appointed Yoram Aridor as Finance Minister and gave him a mandate to lower taxes on such luxury items as color TVs and household appliances, a short-term ploy that helped the Likud win the election-but only at the cost of rekindled inflation a few months later...
That is why I can't understand, Director, why you continue to pay lip service in your letters to basic rights I suppose it may just be a ploy to escape harsh criticism from civil libertarians and students of history who perceive dangerous precedents for your ideas. In that case I won't worry about rights any longer. But I do want to make sure you perceive the contradiction that underlies what has been your public stance of "negative social pressure" against gays and respect for "basic rights". The broad support that is necessary to wield effective negative social pressure...
...John Paul II sent two observers from the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Despite the impressive invitation list, Reagan Administration officials had urged Graham not to accept, insisting that the conference was a forum for endorsing Soviet foreign policy and a not so subtle public relations ploy designed to demonstrate religious tolerance in the U.S.S.R. Graham, they feared, would become an unwitting prophet of Soviet propaganda...
...county district only days before the April 1980 election Burke's opponent for the position of L.A. county supervisor had spent $100,000 having the xeroxed photograph distributed and labeled the picture with the blunt question. "Would you vote for this person." Unable to respond to the blatantly racist ploy, Burke lost the race and withdrew from elective politics at together...
Former President Richard M. Nixon's move to open relations with China was a ploy to continue an immoral war in Vietnam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh told a crowd of about 150 last night at the Kennedy School forum...