Word: ruse
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...backed into a corner and left with few options, the governor would not have taken a stand against Jesse Helms if he were seeking a higher office. He earns points for talking tough to a figure whose negative ratings compete with those of Newt Gingrich; but what if his ruse actually works? How is Ambassador Weld to run for a higher office from the porch of his Mexico City hacienda? Bill Weld had thousands of options this week, and if he was still running for office he wouldn't have committed to the one that meant leaving the country...
...numbers to perpetrate the same scam. All told, he filed 431 false electronic returns claiming refunds of $1,131,241. He was nabbed after the IRS raided his office in 1993, and is serving five years in a federal prison. No one knows how many folks pulled off this ruse, but it is safe to say that most were never caught...
...confirm, that before his name had been leaked to the press as a suspect, agents persuaded Jewell to submit to a voluntary filmed interview by telling him they were making a training video. Officials at the Justice Department say neither they nor FBI Director Louis Freeh knew about the ruse until September. Immediately, say these sources, Justice and Freeh launched an investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility. So far, the officials in Washington seem to agree with the opinion of Jewell attorney Jack Martin that the use of this tactic, often called a pretext interview, was "legal but sleazy...
...editors have a hidden agenda. They obviously weren't satisfied with Harvard's being number one six years in a row. So they decided to shake things up a bit, change things around, make the public take notice--and they decided to put Yale first and Princeton second. The ruse is made even more effective and ironic by the recent appointment of James M. Fallows '70 as editor of the magazine. (He claims he had nothing to do with the decision...
...gang of heroes break into a high-tech, top-secret facility to use a highly protected computer terminal; they dress up as an emergency fire crew as a ruse...