Word: stratagem
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...politician in France. Moreover, if Juppé were to meekly accept his conviction, some believe it would implicate Chirac, because the conviction stems from an illicit jobs scheme run out of Paris' City Hall from 1988 to 1995, when Chirac was mayor and Juppé his finance director. The stratagem, one of half a dozen Chirac-era setups now being investigated, allegedly provided bogus municipal jobs to seven officials of Chirac's Gaullist Party, whose salaries were funneled back into party coffers. French parties long relied on such illegal schemes for funding, but until last week few political heavyweights...
...dropped or trucked in so Afghans can listen to what Commando Solo is broadcasting. An Army PSYOPS unit has printed hundreds of thousands of leaflets, heavy on pictures for the largely illiterate populace. The decision to drop food as well as bombs was a hearts-and-minds stratagem. As was Bush's announcement last week of a fund for Afghan children to be supported by $1 donations from American kids...
Everyone calls it "the play," a stratagem that deploys the ranchers who lease out their land, the crews who drill a well in three days, the landmen who track down mineral rights in hundred-year-old ledgers in county clerks' offices and the lawyers, contractors and equipment suppliers in Gillette, Wyo., who will be making a killing for as long as the boom lasts. Environmentalists worry about damage to the land from the drilling, but everyone agrees that burning natural gas generates far fewer pollutants than oil or coal. "This is a very exciting play," says Terry Dobkins, a vice...
Robert R. Porter '00-'02, the recently elected president of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), solicited non-members to join the organization, immorally altering the outcome of the election results. He has justified his stratagem by claiming that all the students he targeted at least identified with the Republican ideology themselves...
...kept this memento Morrie a best seller for more than 100 weeks, ABC has needlepointed an Oprah Winfrey Presents telepic that's as earnest as life is short. However worthy the book, its carpe diem aphorisms don't translate well to a film that deploys every tear-jerking stratagem short of a poke...