Word: ployes
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...have to shun the official coffee break or park in the boss's parking place occasionally. For women, "overly strong perfume works well in many cases." Should instant promotion threaten, more extreme action can be taken. Creating the impression of a sordid personal life is an excellent ploy. Arrange for a friend to telephone at the office, suggests Peter, and then within earshot of several co-workers cry out, "Don't tell my wife. If she finds out this will kill her." The hint of scandal ought to scotch any chance of promotion...
...position to position during last fall's campaign must have horrified most of his liberal opponents. But now that Tricky Dick is President, that same shiftiness has become liberal America's main hope. Perhaps the campaign bombast about law-in-order and the Forgotten Americans was merely a shrewd ploy that Nixon's men had tailor-made to appeal to the 1968 voter. If so, Nixon comfortably ensconced in the White House might conveniently forget some of his more vehement campaign stands and try to Bring Us Together--possibly for a 1972 campaign...
...more than a week in his efforts to put together a new government in the wake of the Israeli commando attack on Beirut's airport. Stymied in his attempts to satisfy all of Lebanon's myriad religious-political factions, Karami finally was forced to resort to a ploy: he simply named a 16-man Cabinet and presented it to President Charles Helou without bothering to seek the approval of balky opposition leaders. Though two of the incoming ministers at first refused to accept their posts, the other 14 began work immediately. There was at least a possibility that...
Name That Tune. Nettled by similar unkindnesses perpetrated by the BBC, the Soviets last week struck back at their Western tormentors. An article in the government newspaper Izvestia charged the BBC with "involvement in the most seamy operations" of British agents operating in Eastern European nations. One ploy, Izvestia reported, was to play certain tunes at prearranged times, thus enabling a British spy to forecast such events and so prove to local recruits that he was a bona fide spook. The BBC dismissed the charges as ridiculous, and in its own sly way mocked the paper's paranoia...
...ploy backfired when two of the witnesses escaped their security chaperons and took refuge with the Norwegian delegation to the Council. Next day, Pantelis Marketakis, 33, and Konstantine Meletis, 38, testified before the commission, and later related to the press what they had said...