Word: ployes
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...This ploy proved fatal, however, when defenseman Paula Joyce of Dartmouth saw an opening with 42 seconds left to play, and shot the puck straight into the Crimson net from near her own goal, bringing the score to 4-2 and clinching the victory for Dartmouth...
...process is partly a familiar ploy. Stockman plays bad cop with his drastic proposals. Good Cop Reagan then restores some of the cuts, seeming humane even as he effects sizable savings. By leaking word of some of Stockman's planned cuts, and then winning a few appeals, Cabinet chiefs have been able to regain some credibility with their constituencies...
...Steel for control of Marathon Oil turned nasty last week. Mobil, still frustrated and angry over its defeat by Du Pont earlier this year in the struggle to take over Conoco, seemed on the brink of losing again. Then Mobil suddenly went on the offensive with a daring ploy. The oil company announced that it intended to buy up to 25% of its bidding rival, U.S. Steel. Said one banker involved in the dealing: "They have tried to put a gun on the head of U.S. Steel...
Cohen supplies a few "Soviet-style" ploys of his own: hanging up the phone in midsentence, for example, giving the impression you were cut off and thus gaming a little additional time to think things over. Then there is the "nibble": leading your opponent deep into negotiations, so that he has invested much time and effort in them: seeming to make a settlement, then demanding one last concession: a free neck tie, for example, to go with a couple of suits. There is a wonderfully grasping vulgarity in the ploy, an effrontery that should be greeted with admiration, at least...
Still with a man advantage, the Crimson maintained its attack, pulling Better in favor of a sixth attacker. The ploy paid off when Starbuck picked the puck out of a scramble in front of the Northeastern goal and deposited it in the net to tie the score with just 39 seconds remaining. Harvard dominated the five-minute overtime, but was unable to capitalize...