Word: ployes
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...anyway, about 90 percent of clinic patients see a nurse, not a doctor, when they go for counseling. The move to exempt doctors was simply a cynical ploy to disguise the absurdity of the gag rule...
...other words, it is not enough to dismiss the family-values issue as a political ploy in a tough Republican year...
Allen said Tuesday that Farrow had unfairly accused him of molesting his two youngest children. The accusation, Allen said, was a ploy Farrow was using to keep custody of them. Dershowitz said the recent disclosures have made it "very hard to negotiate...
...players dismiss the cries of poverty as a bargaining ploy. In many cases, they charge, the red ink is a figment of creative accounting. A study by baseball accounting expert Roger Noll, professor of economics at Stanford University, found that the Pirates earned a profit of $4 million in 1990 but turned it into an $8 million loss by taking one-time write-offs, such as the expenses to pay released players. Players also point out that salary increases are slowing. Average pay is up 25% this year, vs. 45% in 1991. Next year salaries are projected to inch...
...bombing on two Libyans, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. The scenario prompted President Bush to remark, "The Syrians took a bum rap on this." It also triggered an outcry from the victims' families, who claimed that pointing the finger at Libya was a political ploy designed to reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times it was "outrageous" to pin the whole thing on Libyan leader...