Word: ployes
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...LEADERS of Argentina's ruling military junta, faced with mass discontent and protests at home, embarked last week on a foreign adventure that has brought them to the brink of war with Britain. The invasion of the Falkland Islands was clearly a ploy to distract Argentine citizens from their domestic grievances. We can only hope that the current crisis is resolved peacefully--and that whatever settlement is reached does not reward Argentina for its flagrant violation of international...
...proposed amendment is more than a campaign ploy. Fifty-two senators have already co-sponsored a bill to draft the amendment. It faces tougher going in the House, but Republican supporters hope to pressure wishy-washy representatives into publiclychoosing sides before November rolls around...
...smaller than Connecticut, and populated by 1300 sheep farmers? The gallant sailor-boys (including, we are told, the ever-so-dashing Prince Andrew) are off to fight a brutal military regime, most famous for its human rights violations, whose invasion of the Falkland islands last week was clearly a ploy to distract its citizens' attention away from a serious domestic economic and political crisis. The dimensions of the situation which has developed over the last week, parody a time gone by when there were good guys and bad guys, a glory in fighting for Queen and country, and a chance...
Whether OPEC's price-propping ploy succeeds will depend on the willingness of members to abide by the agreement. In the past two years, weakening worldwide demand for oil has driven down the spot-market prices for crude until they were about $6 per bbl. below the official OPEC benchmark price of $34 per bbl. If prices continue to slide, cash-hungry producers such as Algeria, Venezuela and Nigeria will be tempted to offer under-the-table deals to potential customers in order to take sales away from other cartel producers. To monitor compliance, OPEC decided...
...with the Israeli civilian bureaucracy that was established last November to replace the military administration that had governed the occupied territory since 1967. Like other Arab mayors who favor the creation of an independent Palestinian state, Tawil had denounced Israel's switchover to civilian rule as a duplicitous ploy that pretended to give the area's 700,000 residents more autonomy while in fact laying the foundations for indefinite Israeli control...