Word: ployes
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...Heath, he charged, was selling Britain short. "Britain faces a grave economic crisis, but it is not heading for catastrophe." Wilson compared himself and his government to a soothing family doctor beside the sickbed and sarcastically derided Heath's call for a national coalition as a desperate ploy by a man who knew that he could not get in any other...
Boston has run an extremely segregated school system for years and the busing issue is "a ploy to cover up the really disgusting state of schools in Boston and divert the people's attention from its," a teacher in the Boston school system said last night...
...turns out that the Graffiti-style period winsomeness is just a diversionary ploy and that County Line summons up echoes of Walking Tall only to refute them. The movie is an antidote to hortatory vigilantism. It preaches, with heat and compulsive honesty if not precisely with originality, that the fruit of hate is terrible, indiscriminate violence...
...unlikely however that Parliament will approve such measures in their present form. The Labour leadership has proposed it only under intense pressure from the party's militant wing. Some party leaders no doubt intend to use the wealth tax as an election ploy--a voluntary wage-control program concealed as an attack on social injustice. Others may be committed to a genuinely new "social contract" between the unions and the government...
Whether or not the Bundy announcement was a ploy to extract concessions from Washington, a small one came quickly. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to reduce, from 6% of assets to 4%, the amount that foundations must pay out annually in grants if their assets fall below a certain amount. Another committee motion, to reduce the excise tax that foundations pay on earnings, was narrowly defeated but will probably be brought up again. More important, the Bundy action can be construed as a blunt message to Washington: do something about the falling stock market and the inflation that...