Word: ruse
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...diplomatic equivalent of a fragmentation grenade: a blistering anti-Western philippic right out of the cold war. After giving delegates 30 minutes to digest demands that the West immediately end U.N. sanctions in Serbia and get out of the Baltics, Kozyrev returned to explain that the speech was a ruse. His intended message: Don't take Russian democracy for granted...
...Washington Post reported last week that Parker wrote a memo outlining contradictions in the government's evidence and suggesting that changes in the department's strategy would be "simply a ruse" to hide the contradictions...
Better still, after Davis discovers her ruse, he allows himself to be drawn into it; he hopes jealousy will warm his old girlfriend as his devotion never could. Before you know it, the fake marriage has turned into a troubled one, with the local minister providing earnest counseling and virtually the whole town worrying about those two nice kids trying to work out their problems...
...hoping to make a comeback with the aid of an artificial hip. While concern should properly be focused on whether the man will ever be able to walk normally again, both Bo and the Chicago White Sox (his present employer) seem to be most preoccupied with arranging a waiver ruse so that they can keep him on the payroll at a reduced salary...
PERHAPS BUSH'S PLAN is just a ruse. As Yogi Berra might say, the President may be dumb, but he isn't stupid. He knows his plan is too silly to pass. He knows that most Democrats favor more radical reform. But now his name is no the health care scoreboard, blunting a potent Democratic weapon. His gambit is that voters will be too confused by the intricacies of health care reform to be able to distinguish between rivaling plans. He may be right...