Word: ployes
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...Liberals consider national unity to be Trudeau's strongest ploy but at least in the early going, he had difficulty using it. When told on a Toronto hot-line radio show that the voters were more worried about inflation and unemployment, the Prime Minister unguardedly blurted out that he found it "almost treasonable" for anyone to suggest that national unity was not an important issue...
...clearing customs, the chassis (including the cab) is joined to the cargo bed, a process that a Datsun spokesman concedes "can be performed in a matter of minutes." Toyota has a different stratagem: it builds the cargo beds in California and imports the cabs and chassis. The most ingenious ploy is GM's. Chevy Luvs are sent from Japan to Tacoma, Wash., with the chassis and bed loosely attached. The two parts are separated in a warehouse and, after being moved through customs on different days, rejoined. Darned crafty, those Detroiters...
...peak of his powers. The challenger showed snow-bound commuters and photos of herself with Daley. Laboring under Byrne's verbal barrage and a charge that one of his aides was improperly awarded a no-bid snow-removal contract, Bilandic played the martyr--an ill-advised ploy in a city like Chicago. He compared the attacks against him to the crucifixion of Jesus and the persecution of Jews and blacks...
Though the chairman has called the Amexco bid illegal, Donald McGraw dis missed that charge as "a ploy that Harold is using to pass by the stockholders be cause he does not want to sell at any price...
...holding company that is 10% owned by the Kuwait Investment Co. Flom sued Magus for not disclosing that many of Stern-dent's customers were Jewish and might not buy from a company partly owned by an Arab government agency. The argument was such a successful public relations ploy that Magus eventually gave...