Word: ruse
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...talk tough to speed up the negotiations. Your negotiating partners are required to check back with superiors and clear everything through many layers of bureaucracy. They may be moving as fast as they can. Occasionally, however, a ruse can help. One Western negotiator recently called his secretary back at headquarters and told her to expect him home soon because it was impossible to bring off the deal. He was hoping that the call was bugged. The next day his Russian negotiators said that they were ready to sign a contract...
...week explained the prerequisite for the era of negotiation into which he aspires to lead the two superpowers. In a speech at the United Nations to mark its 25th anniversary, the President stressed the necessity for nations to refrain from the all-too-common diplomatic practice of deception and ruse. "The profoundest national interest of our time, for every nation," said the President, "is not immediate gain but the preservation of peace...
...contrast, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Curious obscene on the ground that the unsexy parts "seem a contrived ruse to give the movie social value." Phoenix Superior Court Judge Paul W. La Prade was even more critical. In his December decision banning the film, he insisted that it "has no plot, no economic message and no religious dogma. Its only message is immoral copulation, public fornication and illicit habits...
...order to understand the extent of the Administration's claborate joke, one has simply to realize that the projected costs for pollution abatement in New York state alone are $1 billion. Even "Laugh-In" can sense the claborate ruse: " If Nixon's War on Pollution is as successful as Johnson's War on Poverty, we're going to have an awful lot of dirty poor people around...
...MANY ways ecology is too narrowly defined. It has the potential to become not a ruse to re-invigorate a sluggish economy and divert radical criticism from issues of oppression, but the means to the realization that the greatest polluter of the earth is American corporate capitalism, whose continued health is based on continued expansion-expansion of the economy, of markets, and, crucially, of the population...