Word: ployes
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...police are obliged to investigate it. Curragh offers the frail chief her hand, looks into his cloudy eyes and slowly explains why the police have come. Through an interpreter, Boi denies he banned the candidate. Instead, he says, rivals of the man invoked Boi's name as a ploy to scare off their opponent. His message to the disaffected, issued via the police, is that anyone is welcome on the island to speak to voters; if they encounter a problem, they can come to see Boi in person. Before leaving, Curragh tells Boi that the village's peace and prosperity...
...Arroyo's address was the most eloquent of her career, and her points about the Philippines' hurly-burly political system might have hit home?if her own widely criticized presidency weren't hanging by the thinnest of threads. She insisted that her speech was not "a political ploy or gimmick," but that's how it came across. The following day, seven members of her Cabinet, including Arroyo's respected economic team, quit, saying they had been on the verge of resigning anyway, and that Arroyo had simply been trying to pre-empt their moves and show that she's still...
...that ploy also made it theoretically possible for cash-strapped riders to become entrapped on board...
...outcome will inevitably intensify the controversy, raging at home as well as abroad, over Reagan's unyielding commitment to SDI. To many Americans, the entire Soviet ploy in Iceland might seem to be a setup, one that would give the Kremlin powerful propaganda ammunition in its current "peace crusade." Gorbachev was quick to blame the U.S. for the breakdown. Said he Sunday night: "Let America think. We are waiting. We are not withdrawing the proposals we have made...
...Sunday night, against the possibility of cheating by the Soviet Union or the development of missiles by another country. American officials also came to believe by late Sunday evening that the Soviet Union was not wholly sincere in its sweeping proposals; they began to seem more like a ploy to force the end of SDI. Indeed, the fact that Moscow would scrap the potential agreements that were reached because of the SDI dispute called into question their own commitment to real arms control. "As we came more and more down to the final stages," said a somber Shultz Sunday evening...